Secrets Management with Infisical

This video provides a high-level overview of Infisical’s secrets management product and how it helps teams securely manage sensitive data such as API keys, database credentials, certificates, tokens, and environment variables across their entire infrastructure.

It begins by defining what “secrets” really are: any sensitive value that an application, service, or pipeline needs in order to run. Whether those secrets are used in local development, CI/CD pipelines, or production environments like Kubernetes, Infisical provides a single, consistent way to manage and deliver them securely.

The video then introduces Infisical’s core organizational model. Everything is structured around a simple hierarchy of organizations, projects, and environments. An organization typically maps to a company or team and contains one or more projects, each representing a product or use case. Within a secrets management project, secrets are separated into environments such as development, staging, and production. Teams can also create multiple production environments for different regions or tiers while still managing everything centrally.

Within environments, Infisical supports additional logical scoping through folders. This allows teams to organize secrets by service, region, or team, providing structure and isolation by default. Secrets don’t accidentally bleed between environments, and access can be tightly scoped to exactly where a secret is meant to be used. Infisical also provides a cross-environment view of secrets, showing values side by side, which makes it easy to spot missing secrets, drift, or inconsistencies before they cause issues.

At a deeper level, secrets in Infisical are key-value pairs, but the values themselves can be much more complex than simple strings. Secrets can be multi-line values like certificates or private keys, structured data like JSON, or values composed from other secrets. Infisical supports referencing secrets across environments, including shared environments, which allows teams to define common values once and safely reuse them elsewhere. This reduces duplication, minimizes drift, and lowers the risk that comes from manually copying sensitive values across systems.

The video emphasizes how Infisical acts as a central source of truth. Instead of duplicating secrets, teams can build secrets from other secrets. When a referenced value changes, everything that depends on it updates automatically. This significantly reduces manual updates and limits blast radius, especially in production environments.

Change management is another core theme. Every secret in Infisical is automatically versioned, so teams can see how a secret has changed over time, who changed it, and when. Secrets can also include metadata such as tags and notes, which becomes critical at scale for providing context, ownership, and usage information. On top of individual versioning, Infisical supports point-in-time recovery, allowing teams to snapshot and restore entire folders or sets of secrets when multiple values need to be rolled back together.

Once secrets are defined and organized, the next focus is delivery. Infisical supports multiple delivery methods depending on where workloads run. For local development, teams commonly use the Infisical CLI to inject secrets at runtime without committing them to files or source control. In CI/CD and production environments, Infisical provides agents and integrations that securely deliver secrets to running workloads.

In Kubernetes environments, Infisical supports several approaches, including a Kubernetes operator, agent injector, CSI provider, and integration with External Secrets Operator. These options allow teams to fit Infisical into existing Kubernetes workflows, including automatically redeploying pods when secrets change. Across cloud and infrastructure environments, Infisical supports workload identity-based authentication, allowing systems to prove who they are at runtime without relying on static credentials.

The video then shifts to access control. As secrets usage grows, controlling who and what can access secrets becomes critical. Infisical uses identities to represent both humans and machines, such as developers, applications, CI pipelines, or background jobs. Access is granted through roles and permissions that can be scoped by project, environment, and secret path. This makes least-privilege access practical. Access can also be temporary, enabling just-in-time access for sensitive environments like production, with automatic expiration.

Visibility and governance are also covered. Infisical provides audit logs for all secret access and changes, covering both human and machine identities. Access requests and secret changes can be gated behind approval workflows, similar to pull requests, ensuring that sensitive actions are deliberate, reviewed, and traceable without slowing teams down.

Finally, the video discusses how secrets management evolves over time. Infisical supports secret rotation to regularly update sensitive values and reduce the risk of long-lived credentials. It also supports dynamic secrets, where credentials are generated on demand, scoped to a specific identity, and automatically expire. This dramatically reduces blast radius and eliminates the need to manage shared, long-lived secrets. For human workflows, secrets can be shared via temporary, expiring links instead of copying values into chat tools or emails.

The walkthrough concludes by tying everything back to a few core principles: secrets should be centralized, scoped by environment and identity, delivered securely at runtime, and fully auditable over time. Infisical brings these principles together into a single platform that supports local development, CI/CD, and production workflows without sacrificing security or developer velocity.