Why does it scale like crap? Sops is on my shortlist to eval because we have a secrets mgmt problem.
SOPS is fine, I was more referring to my implementation.
The reason my pipeline scales poorly is because it requires a full build and deployment cycle to update my dev / stg / prod configurations.
Also, if you store the encrypted files in our git repos as I do, you get constant merge conflicts and basically useless git history.
It is an extremely lazy implementation and literally the bare minimum I could do to get get my application configurations updating in my CI/CD stack.