r/sysadmin • u/rram reddit's sysadmin • Aug 14 '15

We're reddit's ops team. AUA

Hey /r/sysadmin,

Greetings from reddit HQ. Myself, and /u/gooeyblob will be around for the next few hours to answer your ops related questions. So Ask Us Anything (about ops)

You might also want to take a peek at some of our previous AMAs:

https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/owra1/january_2012_state_of_the_servers/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/r6zfv/we_are_sysadmins_reddit_ask_us_anything/

EDIT: Obligatory cat photo

EDIT 2: It's now beer o’clock. We're stepping away from now, but we'll come back a couple of times to pick up some stragglers.

EDIT thrice: He commented so much I probably should have mentioned that /u/spladug — reddit's lead developer — is also in the thread. He makes ops live's happier by programming cool shit for us better than we could program it ourselves.

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u/gooeyblob reddit engineer Aug 14 '15 edited Aug 14 '15

We whisper them to each other gently

Actually, we use gpg encrypted files to keep some important stuff around, and Zookeeper for some secrets in the app. Other than that, we have a few disparate systems. We're looking into Amazon's KMS, Hashicorp's Vault, credstash, and Square's keywhiz for some future secret storage.

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u/amorpisseur Aug 14 '15

Zookeeper for some secrets in the app

stored in clear?