Secure Kubernetes Secrets: Comparing Sealed Secrets, External Secrets Operator, and CSI Driver
This article explains why native Kubernetes Secrets are insufficiently protected, introduces three open‑source solutions—Sealed Secrets, External Secrets Operator, and Secrets Store CSI Driver—covers their architecture, installation steps, usage examples, advantages, drawbacks, and provides practical code snippets for managing secrets safely in Git‑backed clusters.
