A Day in the Life of a Developer – Aembit
Secrets were supposed to help – until they became the reason Alex couldn’t deploy on Friday.
This quick, illustrated story walks you through one developer’s real frustrations: flaky secrets, unclear access, broken auth, late-night rollbacks. If you’ve ever juggled API keys, rotated tokens manually, or been blamed for something infra-related that wasn’t your fault, this one hits close to home.
You’ll walk away with:
- A developer’s-eye view of why CI/CD breaks.
- Why storing secrets in GitLab variables, configs, or env vars can lead to pain.
- Research and stats that back up the story.
- Real-world breaches caused by secrets mismanagement in GitLab CI/CD.
- The alternative: short-lived, identity-based access that just works.
Download it, share it with your team – and maybe the next person who tells you to “just rotate the token and move on.”
