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A container identity bootstrapping tool

What's this blog post about?

Cloudflare has open-sourced PAL, a tool that securely distributes secrets to Dockerized production applications. The company developed the tool to address the challenge of managing and deploying secrets in containerized environments. PAL is designed to work with existing code signing infrastructure and supports two encryption methods: PGP and Red October. It enables users to control which containers can decrypt a secret by leveraging labels that define which secrets a container can access. The tool aims to provide an identity for services running in containers, allowing them to safely receive secrets only in production environments.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
July 3, 2017

Author(s)
Nick Sullivan

Word count
1967

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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