Introduction Managing secrets in our Kubernetes project is always hard work, with a lot of coffee, discussions, best practices and sometimes beers. Many providers offer centralized solutions for secrets management, like AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, Google Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault and many others. In this post we will see an example about how we can manage our Kubernetes secrets with AWS Secrets Manager as a single source of truth with External Secrets Operator in a AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service.