intermediate~2h

Spring Boot + Secrets Manager & Parameter Store

Externalizing Spring Boot configuration and secrets to AWS Secrets Manager and Systems Manager Parameter Store, instead of properties files or environment variables baked into an image.

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🎓 Learning objectives

  • Explain the difference between Parameter Store and Secrets Manager, and when to use each
  • Configure Spring Cloud AWS to load configuration from Parameter Store/Secrets Manager at startup
  • Understand automatic secret rotation and its implication for already-running application instances
  • Explain why baking secrets into a container image or Kubernetes ConfigMap is a mistake

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