Question

What strategies do you use for secrets management across different environments in DevOps workflows?

This question addresses the security in managing and storing secrets—such as API keys, credentials, and other sensitive configuration details—across environments in a DevOps workflow. It involves finding out the tools used for this purpose and their best practices to ensure that they are always accessed consistently and securely during development, testing, staging, and production. This would usually include the use of secret management tools, such as HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or Azure Key Vault. In addition, it is essential to define secure handling processes like RBAC, encryption, and automated rotation of secrets.