https://blog.landryzetam.net/tags/age/Recent content in Age on Landry Zetam - Tech BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.landryzetam.net/posts/secrets-management-with-sops-flux-gitops/Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.landryzetam.net/posts/secrets-management-with-sops-flux-gitops/<h2 id="the-problem-secrets-in-gitops">The Problem: Secrets in GitOps</h2> <p>When I started my Kubernetes homelab journey, I quickly hit a wall that every GitOps practitioner faces: <strong>How do you store secrets in Git without compromising security?</strong></p> <p>The GitOps philosophy is beautifully simple - everything should be in Git. Your entire cluster state, all your applications, configurations, and yes, even secrets. But committing passwords, API keys, and certificates to a public (or even private) repository feels fundamentally wrong. It is wrong.</p>