GCP Secret Manager

Store and manage secrets securely in Google Cloud Platform.

Prerequisites

• GCP project with billing enabled
• gcloud CLI installed and authenticated
• Secret Manager API enabled (secretmanager.googleapis.com)
• IAM permissions: roles/secretmanager.admin for management, roles/secretmanager.secretAccessor for reading
• For GKE: Workload Identity configured on the cluster

Enable the API

# Enable Secret Manager API
gcloud services enable secretmanager.googleapis.com