bitnami / bitnami/sealed-secrets

Decrypt performance: add workload sharding for replicas > 1

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Description

# Summary

Add decrypt workload sharding split by replica.

# Motivation

Currently there is no explicit support for multiple replicas (discussions in https://github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets/issues/62 but the issue is dead). This means that there are limitations in scalability when there are hundreds to thousands of secrets that need regular decryption.

Example: we have thousands of sealed secrets, when we add a new sealed secret it takes an unknown time to decrypt (if at all in some cases). We want to scale to meet the processing needs of these cryptographic functions.

# Proposal

Kubeseal instance should calculate workload based on total targeted sealed-secrets and it's replica count.

# Context / Environment
kubernetes v. 1.18.15
kubeseal v. 0.12.16
Sealed secrets / instance: 500-4000

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by examining how the kubeseal instance currently targets and decrypts sealed secrets, then compare that flow with the configured replica count. Clarify how workload should be divided across replicas and how completion or retry behavior should be measured for thousands of secrets. Done means multiple replicas process the workload without duplicated or missed decryption work.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
go, kubernetes
Domain
devops, distributed-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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