[ninkendo]

> the Secrets CSI Driver loads secrets directly from a secrets store as virtual files within ephemeral volumes.

You could totally spin this as agreeing with 12factor… the virtual files are attached resources that are part of a deployment. The configuration, expressed as env vars, configures where to look for those secrets (ie. their filesystem path) and where they’re used (e.g. as a templatized database URL.)

12factor says config should be env vars, it doesn’t say secrets should be. It’s unfortunate that the site lists credentials as an example of configuration, but… it’d be great IMO if we could sidestep a lot of contention by just considering this to be errata of the example, and that secrets are left as an exercise to the user.