Secrets and Config Management Design
Separate configuration, secrets and code.
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Design configuration and secrets management for my services. Services and languages: [SERVICES]. Environments: [ENVIRONMENTS]. Current approach: [CURRENT_APPROACH]. Compliance needs: [COMPLIANCE_NEEDS]. Define a layered model: static config in code, environment-specific config in a store, secrets in a secrets manager, and runtime injection. Provide rules for naming, access scopes by service identity, rotation periods with automation, auditing, and what happens when the secret store is unavailable. Include a migration plan from the current approach in five steps, with a rollback for each. Build a table of secret types (database passwords, API keys, certificates, signing keys) with rotation method and blast radius. Mark any compliance statement [VERIFY] with the standard it comes from. Add a failure-mode table covering a leaked secret, an expired certificate, a secret store outage, and a mistaken deletion, with detection, immediate action and prevention for each. Describe how developers get secrets locally without storing them in repositories, and what logging and auditing should record without capturing the secret values themselves.
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Layers: code (defaults), config store (per environment), secrets manager (credentials), runtime injection. Secret type | Rotation | Blast radius Database password | 90 days automated | One service API key (payments) | 60 days | High TLS certificate | Auto-renew 30 days before expiry | All users Signing key | Yearly, with overlap | Very high Failure modes: store outage, handled by caching with a short expiry; leaked secret, revoke first, then investigate. Migration in five steps: inventory, create store, move one service, move others, delete old copies. Each step has a rollback.
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