Lately, I’ve been thinking of implementing a secrets management system such as Infiscal, etc. Does anyone use this or something similar like Hashicorp?
How hard would it be to deploy on a pre-existing set up? How does that work? Do you call the required secret in your Docker compose? What makes a secret manager more secure than pulling secrets from an .env file?
Which secret manager is the most popular/better among selfhosters?
Ansible is one of those ‘on the list’ things to check out. It seems to have a broad range of applications.
Sounds like you have reason to bump it up the list now - two birds with one stone.
I need to do this too. I know I have stuff deployed that has plaintext secrets in .env or even the compose. I’ll never get time to audit everything. So the more I make the baseline deployment safe, the better.