How to Manage Secrets in AWS with Secrets Manager and Terraform

<p>AWS Secrets Manager helps us to create, manage, rotate and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets through their lifecycle</p> <p>In this story, we will learn how to create and consume secrets using AWS Secrets Manager and Terraform.</p> <h1>Creating a Secret for a Variable</h1> <p>In this first example, we will create a secret using a variable for an API username.</p> <p>The first step is to define the variable, and we are using&nbsp;<strong>sensitive = true</strong>&nbsp;to protect the values of the variable from being printed in the logs and console output.</p> <p><a href="https://gmusumeci.medium.com/how-to-manage-secrets-in-aws-with-secrets-manager-and-terraform-c0cc6dfb4314"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>
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