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28 Feb 2021 . tech . Secure CI with GitLab and Hashicorp Vault Comments

I’ve spent a long time around various build and deploy systems.

One thing they all have in common is they tend to collect permissions to do things. This can be a sizable problem, especially when these systems are shared between multiple areas of an organisation.

This is more often the case than not, since deployment systems are complicated to manage well and usually, a shared service team somewhere ends up doing it. Probably multiple shared services teams if it is a particularly large organisation.

I’m sure anyone reading this that has managed Jenkins and used it...

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