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What is Secret Management?

The practice of securely storing, accessing, and rotating sensitive credentials like API keys, passwords, and certificates.

Secret management prevents credentials from being hardcoded in source code or configuration files. Secrets are stored in dedicated vaults and accessed via APIs at runtime. This centralizes access control, audit logging, and rotation.

Tools include HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, Google Secret Manager, and Doppler. Best practices include automatic rotation, least-privilege access, encryption at rest and in transit, and never committing secrets to Git.

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