GitLab CI/CD provides a powerful platform for automating software delivery pipelines, but managing secrets securely within these requires striking the right balance between security, automation, and developer experience. Infisical is a new secrets management tool built for modern CI/CD workflows that offers several key benefits, including a developer-first approach, all-in-one solution, intuitive UI/CLI, adaptable architecture, open-source with MIT license, actively maintained, extensive integrations across CI/CD platforms and tools. Infisical provides powerful features such as environment-specific secrets, secret referencing, granular access controls, audit logging, and multiple authentication methods. The tool integrates seamlessly with GitLab CI/CD to manage cloud credentials and other sensitive infrastructure data, enabling secure and efficient secrets management for organizations of all sizes.