Sealed Secrets is a way to safely store encrypted secrets inside Git repositories that can only be decrypted by the controller running in the target cluster. The controller will transparently convert sealed secrets into regular Kubernetes secrets for workloads to consume.
This Terraform module helps platform engineering teams provision Sealed Secrets on Kubernetes. It fully integrates the upstream Kubernetes resources into the Terraform plan/apply lifecycle and allows configuring Sealed Secrets using native Terraform syntax.
The Sealed Secrets module is continuously updated and tested when new upstream versions are released.
TL;DR:
kbst add service sealed-secrets
to add Sealed Secrets to your platformkbst
CLI scaffolds the Terraform module boilerplate for youThe kbst
CLI helps you scaffold the Terraform code to provision Sealed Secrets on your platform.
It takes care of calling the module once per cluster, and sets the correct source
and latest version
for the module.
And it also makes sure the module's configuration
and configuration_base_key
match your platform.
# add Sealed Secrets service to all platform clusterskbst add service sealed-secrets
# or optionally only add Sealed Secrets to a single cluster# 1. list existing platform moduleskbst listaks_gc0_westeuropeeks_gc0_eu-west-1gke_gc0_europe-west1
# 2. add Sealed Secrets to a single clusterkbst add service sealed-secrets --cluster-name aks_gc0_westeurope
Scaffolding the boilerplate is convenient, but platform service modules are fully documented, standard Terraform modules. They can also be used standalone without the Kubestack framework.
All Kubestack platform service modules support the same module attributes and configuration as all Kubestack modules. The module configuration is a Kustomization set in the per environment configuration map following Kubestack's inheritance model.
The example below shows some options to customize the resources provisioned by the Sealed Secrets module.
module "example_sealed_secrets" { providers = { kustomization = kustomization.example } source = "kbst.xyz/catalog/sealed-secrets/kustomization" version = "0.26.3-kbst.0" configuration = { apps = {+ # change the namespace of all resources+ namespace = var.example_sealed_secrets_namespace++ # or add an annotation+ common_annotations = {+ "terraform-workspace" = terraform.workspace+ }++ # use images to pull from an internal proxy+ # and avoid being rate limited+ images = [{+ # refers to the 'pod.spec.container.name' to modify the 'image' attribute of+ name = "container-name"+ + # customize the 'registry/name' part of the image+ new_name = "reg.example.com/nginx"+ }] } ops = {+ # scale down replicas in ops+ replicas = [{+ # refers to the 'metadata.name' of the resource to scale+ name = "example"+ + # sets the desired number of replicas+ count = 1+ }] } }}
In addition to the example attributes shown above, modules also support secret_generator
, config_map_generator
, patches
and many other Kustomization attributes.
Full documentation how to customize a module's Kubernetes resources is available in the platform service module configuration section of the framework documentation.