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+# External Secrets
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+The External Secrets Kubernetes operator reads information from a third party service
+like [AWS Secrets Manager](https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/)  and automatically injects the values as [Kubernetes Secrets](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/secret/).
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+Multiple people and organizations are joining efforts to create a single External Secrets solution based on existing projects. If you are curious about the origins of this project, check out this issue [kubernetes-external-secrets/issues/47](https://github.com/external-secrets/kubernetes-external-secrets/issues/47) and this [PR](https://github.com/external-secrets/kubernetes-external-secrets/pull/477) and the discussion that triggered this.
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+<a name="features"></a>
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+# Planned Features
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+- Support to multiple Provider stores (AWS Secret Manager, GCP Secret Manger, Vault and more) simultaneously.
+- Multiple External Secrets operator instances for different contexts/environments.
+- A custom refresh interval to sync the data from the Providers, syncing your Kubernetes Secrets up to date.
+- Select specific versions of the Provider data.
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+<a name="partners"></a>
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+<!-- Not sure how to word this properly. -->
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+# Kicked off by
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+![](assets/CS_logo_1.png)
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+![](assets/Godaddylogo_2020.png)
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+<!-- Who else? Please add here. -->
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+<a name="original-projects"></a>
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+# Please bear in mind
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+While this project is not stable and we don't have feature parity with the original projects, maybe you would like to consider having a look over these:
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+[Kubernetes External Secrets](https://github.com/external-secrets/kubernetes-external-secrets)
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+[Secrets Manager](https://github.com/itscontained/secret-manager)
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+[External Secrets Operator](https://github.com/ContainerSolutions/externalsecret-operator/)
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+<!-- Who else? Please add here. -->