Self-Service Secrets and Config Management

Dev and Ops aim to establish a seamless app deployment pipeline, but not all teams achieve continuous delivery.

Self-service configuration management enhances app delivery to achieve continuous delivery. DevOps is not a single person's responsibility, but a team effort for effective implementation.

Self-service configuration management plays a major role in implementing a shift left strategy.

To prevent security breaches, developers need to shift left in the code build process by integrating tools in the IDE. 

We often see a “pendulum swing” effect in the software development realm in configuration management. The shift between “centralize everything” and “decentralize everything” seems to sway back and forth every decade.

What feels new today is a pattern we’ve seen before. This helps us better understand what the future of application deployment looks like.