> In the end, we went with a database with role access control (only our machines and us can talk to the database). Our code gets the secrets from this database

> In the end, we went with a database with role access control (only our machines and us can talk to the database). Our code gets the secrets from this database on startup. How does the code get access to the database? I've lived in AWS-land for so long, I don't know how the non-cloud world manages secrets.