DevSecOps in Practice: Tools That Actually Catch Vulnerabilities - Part 1 - Secret Scanning with Gitleaks

A DevSecOps pipeline is set up using Gitleaks to catch exposed secrets in a Flask app. Gitleaks is integrated with pre-commit and GitHub Actions to ensure secrets are not accidentally pushed. A config file and .gitleaksignore are used to ignore known secrets. This is the first part of a series on DevSecOps in practice.