For those of you using GCP, how are you handling config/secrets by environment? Are you using Secret Manager, Pulumi ESC, some other tool?
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stocky-restaurant-98004
03/25/2026, 2:22 PM
Hi. I work for Pulumi in Customer Success (for transparency).
FYI, if cost is a concern, unencrypted values do not incur charges in ESC. IDK about Google Secrets Manager pricing, but I do know that encrypted values in ESC (
fn::secret
) are cheaper than AWS Secrets Manager.
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narrow-garage-65149
03/26/2026, 3:08 AM
Thanks Josh. It looks like with ESC it syncs to Google secrets manager. So you actually have it in two places
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stocky-restaurant-98004
03/26/2026, 6:25 PM
Yes, you can go either way, depending on where you want the source of truth. However, if you need secrets for workloads, we have ways to make ESC the source of truth: the ESC SDK, or the ESC External Secrets Operator for K8s.