Secret Manager  |  Google Cloud (2024)

FAQs

How safe is Google Secret Manager? ›

Secret Manager is a secure and convenient storage system for API keys, passwords, certificates, and other sensitive data.

Secret Manager works well for storing configuration information such as database passwords, API keys, or TLS certificates needed by an application at runtime. A key management system, such as Cloud KMS, lets you manage cryptographic keys and to use them to encrypt or decrypt data.

AWS Secrets Manager

The service enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle. Categories in common with Google Secret Manager: Secrets Management Tools.

Go to the Secret Manager page in the Google Cloud console. On the Secret Manager page, click Create Secret. On the Create secret page, under Name, enter a name for the secret (for example, my-secret ). A secret name can contain uppercase and lowercase letters, numerals, hyphens, and underscores.

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As part of the Google Cloud Free Tier, Secret Manager provides resources that are free to use up to specific limits. These usage limits are available both during and after the free trial period.

The Google Cloud Secret Manager is a key-value store for secrets, such as passwords, access tokens, and cryptographic keys. Go to GCP IAM for service accounts and create a new service account for KES. KES uses this service account to authenticate to GCP and access the Secret Manager.

Cloud KMS (Key Management Service) is a service that is used to create and manage cryptographic keys. It follows the encryption and decryption process whereas the Secret Manager stores the credentials in a vault (secret) instead of encrypting and decrypting them.

Platform

HashiCorp Vault comes in two modes: self-hosted (self-managed) and HCP Cloud (managed). Both of these hosting options modes are available in Infisical, while GCP Secret Manager is only available as a managed Cloud-based solution. HashiCorp Vault is by default an API-first tool.

What is the difference between Google Cloud and GCP? ›

Google Cloud vs Google Cloud Platform

Google Cloud includes a combination of services available over the internet that can help organizations go digital. Google Cloud Platform (which provides public cloud infrastructure for hosting web-based applications and is the focus of this blog post) is a part of Google Cloud.

To access a secret in your AWS account, you can use the secret name. To access a secret in a different AWS account, use the ARN of the secret. The key name of the key-value pair whose value you want to retrieve. If you don't specify a json-key , AWS CloudFormation retrieves the entire secret text.

To pass a secret to a build, use the docker build --secret flag, or the equivalent options for Bake.

To allow Cloud Run to access the secret, the service identity must have the following role: Secret Manager Secret Accessor ( roles/secretmanager. secretAccessor )

A secret is a piece of sensitive information. For example, an API key, password, or any type of credential that you might use to access a confidential system. By using secrets, you're able to authenticate to protected resources as you build your applications.