AI engineering glossary · MLOps, LLMOps cloud
What is secrets management?
Secrets management: The practice of storing, distributing, rotating and auditing sensitive values such as passwords, tokens and API keys in a dedicated, access-controlled system, never in source code or images. Examples include HashiCorp Vault and cloud secret managers.
Secrets management: an example
An app fetches its database password at start-up from a secret manager, and the password is rotated every 30 days without a redeploy.
Related terms
- Kubernetes Secret
- Environment variable
- IAM role
- Software supply chain security
More MLOps, LLMOps cloud terms
- Security group
- Serverless
- Service level indicator
- Sidecar container
- Smoke test
- Staging environment
- Stateless service
- Terraform
Where you learn it
Secrets management is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.