Best Practices

• Assign an IAM role to your EKS pod to grant access to AWS Secrets Manager. This avoids hardcoding AWS credentials in your application.

• Use AWS Secrets Manager's automatic rotation feature to ensure credentials are regularly updated.

• If your application is already running on Kubernetes, the CSI Driver approach is more Kubernetes-native and integrates well with the ecosystem.

• Ensure secrets are encrypted at rest and in transit.Use Kubernetes RBAC to restrict access to secrets.

• Use AWS CloudTrail and Kubernetes audit logs to monitor access to secrets.