Secrets in AWS ECS Fargate

There are many ways to use ‘secrets’ in ECS and ECS Fargate. Most of the time they are exposed using Environment variables, because a few years ago this was the only easy option. Today we have two improved options. You could add a tool to your docker container which retrieves and decrypts your secrets before parsing them to the application. The other one is to embed the retrieval and decryption in the application. Both approaches are covered in this blog post.

I published this blog post when I was part of Binx.io:

Read the full blog post on binx.io

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