GCP Secret Manager

Store and manage secrets securely in Google Cloud Platform.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

• Managing secrets in GCP
• Integrating with GKE workloads
• Storing API keys and credentials
• Implementing secret rotation

Prerequisites

• GCP project
• gcloud CLI configured
• Secret Manager API enabled

Basic Operations

# Create secret
echo -n "secret123" | gcloud secrets create db-password --data-file=-

# Access secret
gcloud secrets versions access latest --secret=db-password

# Add new version
echo -n "newsecret" | gcloud secrets versions add db-password --data-file=-

# List secrets
gcloud secrets list

Application Integration

from google.cloud import secretmanager

client = secretmanager.SecretManagerServiceClient()
name = f"projects/my-project/secrets/db-password/versions/latest"
response = client.access_secret_version(request={"name": name})
secret = response.payload.data.decode("UTF-8")

GKE Integration

apiVersion: secrets-store.csi.x-k8s.io/v1
kind: SecretProviderClass
metadata:
  name: gcp-secrets
spec:
  provider: gcp
  parameters:
    secrets: |
      - resourceName: "projects/my-project/secrets/db-password/versions/latest"
        path: "db-password"

Best Practices

• Use Workload Identity for GKE
• Implement IAM least-privilege
• Enable audit logging
• Use secret versions for rollback
• Integrate with Cloud KMS for encryption

Related Skills

• hashicorp-vault – Multi-cloud secrets
• gcp-gke – GKE integration