Secure Secrets Management in Terraform Part1: Leveraging AWS KMS
Secure Secrets Management in Terraform — Part1: Leveraging AWS KMS One of the key principles of modern Infrastructure as Code is the secure management of sensitive information. In thins first part of our series about secure secrets management in Terraform/OpenTofu, we will focus on the use of AWS Key Management Service, better known as KMS, to securely encrypt and manage secrets with Terraform/OpenTofu. Prerequisites AWS Account with appropriate permissions Terraform/OpenTofu installed AWS CLI configured AWS KMS First, let’s create a KMS key with proper permissions and configurations: ...