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Date Published
Author
Thomas Segura
Word count
4115
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Migrating from Sealed Secrets to Infisical involves adopting an external secrets management solution for managing sensitive configuration in GitOps workflows. The process includes setting up Infisical, either cloud or self-hosted, and integrating its Kubernetes operator with Argo CD. This transition allows teams to move beyond the limitations of Sealed Secrets, such as security responsibility, limited access control, audit limitations, secret rotation challenges, and growing complexity. External secrets management solutions provide benefits like no secrets in Git, dynamic updates, central management and audit, flexibility, more security options, bi-directional sync, and push capabilities. When migrating to Infisical, teams must consider architectural and operational factors, including adding an external service, implementing robust high-availability practices, securing the new system with appropriate vetting, incorporating the new tool into existing GitOps processes, and evaluating costs. The migration process involves adopting Infisical for secret storage and distribution, replacing SealedSecrets manifests in the GitOps repo, transferring existing secrets from SealedSecrets to Infisical, adding Infisical reference manifests to Git, and removing Sealed Secrets. Teams should test and rollback the migration steps, be mindful of performance and scaling, and consider using the CSI driver for advanced use cases. By following these steps and best practices, organizations can enhance the security and manageability of their GitOps workflows with dedicated secret management solutions like Infisical.