SOPS: Git-Friendly Secrets Management
The eternal problem: you need secrets in your repo for deployment, but you can’t commit plaintext credentials. SOPS solves this elegantly by encrypting only the values while leaving keys readable. Why SOPS? Traditional approaches: Environment variables: Work, but no version control Vault: Great, but complex for small teams AWS Secrets Manager: Vendor lock-in, API calls at runtime .env files in .gitignore: Hope nobody commits them SOPS encrypts secrets in place. You commit encrypted files. CI/CD decrypts at deploy time. Full audit trail in git. ...