How do i handle secrets in Google Cloud Functions?

Question

What is the common practice here? There seems to be no tools provided by gcloud. I\'m deploying functions from local machine for now, so I can hardcode secrets, but

Answer 1

You can use the Secret Manager for this. Follow the instructions on the link to add a secret.

The only GOTCHA I found is that by default the service account doesn't have read-access to the secrets, you've got to manually grant permissions, like so: