[ADDON] - External Secrets Operator

[julianxhokaxhiu]

Issue Type

Enhancement

Description

The Context:
When deploying apps on the cluster there is a need to manage secrets, without the risk of exposing them through Environment Variables or managing them by hand and having rotation problems in the future. Having some tooling that helps do this automatically and in a safe and secure way, would be better.

The Solution:
In order to provide cross-cloud compatibility, the External Secrets Operator addon could be added, which would enable their usage not only consuming the relative Cloud Provider secret managers but also third-party ones like Hashicop Vault.

The Alternatives:
One alternative to the External Secrets Operator that has been considered is the Secrets Store CSI Driver, although the current list of providers doesn't seem to match the one from the External Secrets Operator.

[amanvr]

This is being put on hold till local development for addons is fixed