About Use Cases

Introduction 🐢

This section lists various use cases to register secrets to Kubernetes workloads using VMware Secrets Manager, in tutorial form. Each tutorial isolated in itself, explaining a specific feature of VMware Secrets Manager.

Following these tutorials, you will have a better understanding of what VMware Secrets Manager is capable of, you will learn core VMware Secrets Manager concepts by doing.

When you complete the tutorials listed here, you will have a fair understanding of how to use VMware Secrets Manager to manage your secrets.

Follow the White Rabbit 🐇

We advise you to follow these tutorials in the sequence they are presented here. We’ve structured them this way to start with simpler use cases and progressively introduce more advanced techniques as we build upon our knowledge.

1. Overview and Prerequisites
2. Registering Secrets
3. Using Init Command
4. Revealing Secrets
5. Using VSecM Sidecar
6. Using VSecM SDK
7. Using VSecM Init Container
8. Encrypting Secrets
9. Transforming Secrets
10. Mounting Secrets as Volumes
11. Mutating a Template File
12. Retrieving Secrets from VSecM SDK
13. Mounting Kubernetes Secrets
14. Encrypting Large Files
15. Setting the Root Keys Externally
16. Generating Pattern-Based Randomized Secrets
17. VMware Secrets Manager Showcase

Further Reading

The use cases above leverage VSecM Sentinel and VSecM SDK. For the interested, the following sections cover these tools in greater detail:

• VSecM SDK Documentation
• VSecM Sentinel Command Line Reference

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