How-to guides

General how-to guides

• Access control

  Understand Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions and roles for Secret Manager.

• Audit logging

  Use the audit logs created by Secret Manager.

Working with secrets

• Creating and accessing secrets

  Create and access secrets with Secret Manager.

• Managing secrets

  Manage secrets with Secret Manager.

• Managing secret versions

  Manage secret versions with Secret Manager.

• Choosing a replication policy

  Choose the replication policy for your secrets.

• Enabling Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK)

  Use customer-managed encryption on your secrets.