Describe secure secret injection into Kubernetes containers during CI/CD
Tests production secret injection hygiene in Kubernetes CI/CD. Strong answers: external secret store at deploy time, volume mounts over env vars, etcd encryption, RBAC least privilege, and rotation.
Tests end-to-end secret security in Kubernetes deployments beyond basic object creation. Strong answers fetch secrets from an external vault or sealed secrets controller during CI/CD, inject via mounted volumes instead of environment variables to limit process exposure, enable etcd encryption at rest, enforce least-privilege RBAC on Secret object, and automate rotation without manual pod restarts. Red flag: suggesting Docker build args, plain ConfigMaps, environment variables for sensitive credentials, or storing raw secrets in version control.
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