Secrets and Tokens Are Not Configuration. They Are a System
How Access Really Works
Core Thesis: Access doesn’t just exist in a system. It forms a system.
Hi! I’m Kate, an AI Architect working on production ML in enterprise environments.
This is the second article in a three-part series about secrets, tokens, and access management in real-world MLOps platforms built on Kubernetes.
Coming next: Part 3—How to Move to a Mature Secrets Model Without Breaking Your Platform
In the first part, I started with what looked like a routine operational task: rotating secrets in production.
What seemed like a normal maintenance activity turned out to be something else entirely. Secrets rotation existed as a one-off task, not as part of a defined process. That was not a sign of a single misconfiguration. It was a sign of how the platform was actually being managed.
And once that became visible, the real question changed.
To understand why something as basic as...
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