[GitHub] [airflow] kaxil edited a comment on pull request #8889: Support custom Variable implementation

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kaxil edited a comment on pull request #8889:
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/8889#issuecomment-631486133


   This is exactly the reason for creating Secrets Backend where currently it can retrieve both Variables & Connection.
   
   What's the use-case of writing Variables to an external backend?
   
   The main reason for Secret Bakend was to move this responsibility to a product/service that does that nicely. Most of the companies use a single Secrets Manager whether it is Hashicorp Vault, GCP Secrets Manager etc. And the main reason for doing this is that they could have full control over it and those same secrets could be used across multiple deployments.
   
   Even if we allow the feature to write to any Secrets Manager, I doubt many companies will use it.


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