You're assuming readers are managing snowflake servers, and I'm assuming they are in an containerized/autoscaling/more modern environment.
SSM wins for mine. I think you're right that the file approach wins for yours.
SSM wins for mine. I think you're right that the file approach wins for yours.
To that end, yes, their servers are probably hand-rolled or provisioned with minimal scripting like Ansible. And so manual secret deployment is to be expected.
If somebody is attempting to autoscale without having this solved already, they are making mistakes.