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Security · Intermediate · Live online

Secrets and Configuration Hygiene

Environment layering, rotation cadence, and least privilege defaults.

Secrets rot silently. We focus on calendars, scanners, and boring runbooks—not buzzword zero trust decks.

Duration: 2 weeks

Tuition (informational): 3,100,000 VND

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What ships in the syllabus

  • 12-factor refresher with anti-patterns
  • Dotenv vs runtime injection tradeoffs
  • Rotation calendar template
  • Break-glass access note template
  • Audit of sample repo secrets risk
  • KMS conceptual mapping (cloud agnostic)
  • Mentor AMA on CI secret scanners

Outcomes we actually assess

  1. Produce a rotation calendar for one integration
  2. Remove one unsafe secret pattern from sample repo fork
  3. Draft break-glass steps for on-call
Portrait for Khoa Le

Khoa Le

Learner operations lead; designs weekly office hours and code walkthroughs.

FAQ — including what we skip

Vault?

Referenced conceptually; labs use local env + SOPS-style patterns on paper.

Hardware HSM?

Out of scope.

Limitation?

No legal compliance attestation.

Experience notes

“Rotation calendar got adopted by ops without a fight.”
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