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Co-authored-by: Faeka Ansari <[email protected]>
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# Managing Credentials

To manage the progression of freight from stage to stage, Kargo will often
To manage the progression of Freight from Stage to Stage, Kargo will often
require read/write permissions on private GitOps repositories and read-only
permissions on private container image and/or Helm chart repositories.

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[the advanced section of the installation guide](./10-installing-kargo.md#advanced-installation)
for more details.

:::note
Operators must manually ensure Kargo controllers receive read-only access
to `Secret`s in the designated namespaces. For example, if `kargo-global-creds`
is designated as a global credentials namespace, the following `RoleBinding`
should be created within that `Namespace`:

```yaml
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: RoleBinding
metadata:
name: kargo-controller-read-secrets
namespace: kargo-global-creds
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: kargo-controller
namespace: kargo
roleRef:
kind: ClusterRole
name: kargo-controller-read-secrets
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
```
:::

:::info
By default, Kargo controllers lack cluster-wide permissions on `Secret`
resources. Instead, the Kargo _management controller_ dynamically expands
controller access to `Secret`s on a namespace-by-namespace basis as new
`Project`s are created.

_It is because this process does not account for "global" credential namespaces
that these bindings must be created manually by an operator._
:::

:::warning
Setting `controller.serviceAccount.clusterWideSecretReadingEnabled` setting to
`true` during Kargo installation will grant Kargo controllers cluster-wide read
permission on `Secret` resources.

__This is highly discouraged, especially in sharded environments where this
permission would have the undesirable effect of granting remote Kargo
controllers read permissions on all `Secret`s throughout the Kargo control
plane's cluster -- including `Secret`s having nothing to do with Kargo.__
:::

:::note
Any matching credentials (exact match _or_ pattern match) found in a project's
own `Namespace` take precedence over those found in any global credentials
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match is found in one global credentials `Namespace` does Kargo search the next.
:::

:::caution
It is important to understand the security implications of this feature. Any
credentials stored in a global credentials `Namespace` will be available to
_all_ Kargo projects.
:::

## Managing Credentials with the CLI

The Kargo CLI can be used to manage credentials in a project's `Namespace.`
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