# External Secrets

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/).

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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# Planned Features

- 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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# Kicked off by

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# While this project is being maintained

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:

[Kubernetes External Secrets](https://github.com/external-secrets/kubernetes-external-secrets)

[Secrets Manager](https://github.com/itscontained/secret-manager)

[External Secrets Operator](https://github.com/ContainerSolutions/externalsecret-operator/)

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