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How is this different from calling Secrets Manager directly? The only benefit I can think of is caching. So your secrets can be fetched a bit faster. But that i
by perryizgr8 2y ago
How is this different from calling Secrets Manager directly? The only benefit I can think of is caching. So your secrets can be fetched a bit faster. But that is such a niche use-case, and you can easily cache it yourself if you need to.
- rfoo 2y agoSometimes you just want a daemon to fetch secrets / config files containing secret for whatever code you don't own. For example you spin up nginx and setup HTTP basic auth quickly and don't bother writing your own script to periodically update user list from SSM.
- rirze 2y agoapparently it has to do with pricing per API call.
- Salgat 2y agoAWS directly contacted us to warn us about pricing because we were pulling secrets so much across all our deployments. Caching is definitely important for that reason alone.