A practical guide to Google Cloud's Parameter Manager
Every development team wants to build robust, secure, and scalable cloud applications, and that often means navigating complexity — especially when it comes to configuration management. Relying on hard-coded configurations and keys is a common practice that can expose sensitive security details. To move faster and stay secure, developers should use a centralized, secure service dedicated to managing application configurations. Google Cloud’s solution is our Parameter Manager, designed to reduce unnecessarily sharing key cloud configurations, such as API keys, database passwords, and private encryption keys. Parameter Manager works with many types of data formats, including JSON, YAML, and other unformatted [...]