Managing Secrets at Scale at Velocity EU
Drew WrightUPDATE, 1/12/16 Our own Alex Schoof spoke at Velocity EU 2015 in Amsterdam on managing secrets at scale in the cloud. It was a highly rated talk that earned a write-up in InfoQ. Alex will be presenting this talk at tonight’s DevOps DC Meetup in Arlington, VA. You can view the slides from his talk on SlideShare and view his talk on Vimeo below: ORIGINAL POST Modern systems are full of secrets. There are secrets we think about all the time, like private keys for SSL certificates or the password for the prod database, and there are secrets that we ignore or forget, like the secret used to generate HMACs for session cookies. All these secrets present management hurdles: They need to be safely and securely distributed to servers that need them. They must have some kind of...
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