Secrets in Serverless

1 · Seth Vargo · Sept. 30, 2018, midnight
Serverless applications and cloud functions often need to communicate with an upstream API or service. Perhaps they require a username and password to connect to a database, an API key to talk to an upstream service, or a certificate to authenticate to an API. This raises questions like: How do I manage secrets in serverless environments? How do I get credentials into my serverless lambda or cloud function? How can I use secrets AWS Lambda or Google Cloud Functions? This post describes common p...