Argo Events: How to Synchronize GCP Secret Manager with Kubernetes Secrets

We show how to use Argo events to synchronize secrets managed in the Google Cloud Platform Secret Manager with Kubernetes secrets.

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Argo Events is an open source, event-driven workflow automation tool that helps streamline complex workflows by responding to events and executing tasks in response. In this article, we’ll dive into the concept of event-driven automation, walk through the setup, and provide a step-by-step example of using Argo Events to receive updates to GCP secrets stored in GCP Secret Manager.

Before you begin, make sure you have the following prerequisites:

• A GCP account with sufficient permissions to create and manage the required resources.
• Terraform and Kubernetes installed on your local machine.

Since this article is about ArgoEvents, we assume that the basic setup of Terraform and Google Cloud Platform has already been done. Therefore, we will not go into those details.

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