Secrets, Serverless, KMS, IAM Posted on September 30, 2018 Serverless applications and cloud functions often need to communicate with an upstream API or service. Perhaps they require a username and password to connect to a database, an API key to talk to an upstream service, or a certificate to authenticate to an API. This raises questions like: How do I manage secrets in serverless environments?
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