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Secrets Management with GCP Secret Manager and Terraform

Use Secret Manager, Terraform state inspection, and write-only patterns to handle GCP secrets without turning this into a Vault lab.

45 minutes
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Lab Overview

Create and version secrets in Google Secret Manager, inspect how traditional data sources leak secret values into Terraform state, and finish with Terraform 1.11 write-only attributes to keep secret values out of state.

What You'll Learn

Create a Secret Manager secret with replication configuration

Generate a random password and store it as a secret version

Read the secret with a Terraform data source and confirm the value lands in state

Control access to a secret with Secret Manager IAM

Explain why `sensitive = true` only redacts output and does not protect state

Use the `secret_data_wo` write-only attribute to avoid storing secret values in state

Prerequisites

Terraform state management fundamentals

Basic familiarity with GCP IAM and Secret Manager

Technologies Covered

terraformgcpsecretssecret-manager

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