Uploaded September 2017 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
In a containerized deployment, how do you safely pass secrets - like passwords and tokens - between containers without compromising their safety? If orchestration means a container can run on any machine in the cluster, how do you minimize access to your secrets on all those hosts? In this talk we will explore and demonstrate the risks, and discuss best practices for keeping your secrets safe.
About Liz: Liz Rice is the Technology Evangelist with container security specialists Aqua Security, where she also contributes to open source projects such as kube-bench. She has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from working on network protocols and distributed systems, and in digital technology sectors such as VOD, music, and VoIP. When not building startups, giving talks or writing code, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London.
In a containerized deployment, how do you safely pass secrets - like passwords and tokens - between containers without compromising their safety? If orchestration means a container can run on any machine in the cluster, how do you minimize access to your secrets on all those hosts? In this talk we will explore and demonstrate the risks, and discuss best practices for keeping your secrets safe.
About Liz: Liz Rice is the Technology Evangelist with container security specialists Aqua Security, where she also contributes to open source projects such as kube-bench. She has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from working on network protocols and distributed systems, and in digital technology sectors such as VOD, music, and VoIP. When not building startups, giving talks or writing code, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London.
