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Store API keys, passwords, certificates, and sensitive data

Secret Manager is a secure and convenient storage system for API keys, passwords, certificates, and other sensitive data.

Features

Least privilege made easy

Easily follow the principle of least privilege with Secret Manager's Cloud IAM roles. You can grant individual permissions to secrets and separate the ability to manage secrets from the ability to access their data.

Simplified life cycle management

Secret Manager enables simple life cycle management with first class versioning and the ability to pin requests to the latest version of a secret. You can use Cloud Functions to automate rotation.

Powerful auditing, built in

With Cloud Audit Logs integration, every interaction with Secret Manager generates an audit log. This integration makes meeting audit and compliance requirements easy.

Replication policies

Secret names are project-global resources, but secret data is stored in regions. You can choose specific regions in which to store your secrets, or you can let us decide. Either way, we automatically handle the replication of secret data.

First-class versioning

Secret data is immutable and most operations take place on secret versions. With Secret Manager, you can pin a secret to specific versions like "42" or floating aliases like "latest."

Cloud IAM integration

Control access to secrets the same way you control access to other Google Cloud resources. Only project owners have permission to access Secret Manager secrets; other roles must explicitly be granted permissions through Cloud IAM.

Audit logging

With Cloud Audit Logs enabled, every interaction with Secret Manager generates an audit entry. You can ingest these logs into anomaly detection systems to spot abnormal access patterns and alert on possible security breaches.

Encrypted by default

Data is encrypted in transit with TLS and at rest with AES-256-bit encryption keys.

VPC Service Controls support

Powerful and extensible

Secret Manager's API-first design makes it easy to extend and integrate into existing systems. It is also integrated into popular third-party technologies like HashiCorp Terraform and GitHub Actions.

How It Works

Secret Manager lets you store, manage, and access secrets as binary blobs or text strings. Secret Manager works well for storing configuration information such as database passwords, API keys, or TLS certificates needed by an application at runtime.

Common Uses

Secrets management

Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs

Create a secret

1. Go to the Secret Manager page in the Google Cloud console.
2. On the Secret Manager page, click Create secret.
3. On the Create secret page, under Name, enter a name for the secret (for example, my-secret). A secret name can contain uppercase and lowercase letters, numerals, hyphens, and underscores. The maximum allowed length for a name is 255 characters.
4. Optional: To also add a secret version when creating the initial secret, in the Secret value field, enter a value for the secret (for example, abcd1234). The secret value can be in any format but must not be larger than 64 KiB. You can also upload a text file containing the secret value using the Upload file option.
5. Click the Create secret button.

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Tutorials, quickstarts, & labs

Create a secret

1. Go to the Secret Manager page in the Google Cloud console.
2. On the Secret Manager page, click Create secret.
3. On the Create secret page, under Name, enter a name for the secret (for example, my-secret). A secret name can contain uppercase and lowercase letters, numerals, hyphens, and underscores. The maximum allowed length for a name is 255 characters.
4. Optional: To also add a secret version when creating the initial secret, in the Secret value field, enter a value for the secret (for example, abcd1234). The secret value can be in any format but must not be larger than 64 KiB. You can also upload a text file containing the secret value using the Upload file option.
5. Click the Create secret button.

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Pricing

How Secret Manager pricing works

When you use Secret Manager, you are charged for operations and active secret versions.

All customers get six secret versions for analyzing and storing sensitive data.

Description

Free

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Price

$0.06 per version per location

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Price

$0.03 per 10,000 operations

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Price

$0.05 per rotation

Secret Manager bills for every SECRET_ROTATE message sent to a Pub/Sub topic.

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