How to Handle Secrets in CI

Learn the importance of securely handling secrets in CI/CD pipelines and explore different methods for managing them. The post covers why storing secrets as plain text is risky and offers two primary solutions: using the CI/CD system's secrets feature and leveraging secret managers with short-lived tokens via OpenID Connect (OIDC). Detailed instructions are given for integrating these practices with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and AWS services.