Shared secret rotation

On-call incidentHard45 minStripe style

Your task

A departing employee's laptop is found to have had a clear-text copy of a shared database master password and a single Stripe restricted API key that 40+ microservices all use (it was hard-coded in a base config). The employee left under contested circumstances 9 days ago; access logs are inconclusive. You must rotate both secrets, but the Stripe key is used by services across 6 teams with no central secret store, and the DB password is referenced in ~30 deploy manifests. How do you triage the blast radius and roll the rotation without a self-inflicted outage?

It covers

  • Shared secret blast radius
  • Zero downtime rotation