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Passwords, tokens, encryption keys, and API keys start to pile up as we spin up new cloud resources and release new apps. Because different systems and people need to access this authentication information, these secrets suddenly become duplicated ac...
While .env files are still commonly used and were an improvement upon storing secrets in source code, the security risks and impact on developer productivity are only now being fully realized. To understand what’s driving the next evolutionary shift ...
For those who’ve managed secrets via .env files or have briefly looked at secrets managers such as HashiCorp Vault , it’s easy to get the impression that “secrets management” is simply the storage and retrieval of secrets from a Key-Value data store...
Secrets and credentials management is widely considered to be the most overlooked aspect of software development. Many teams struggle daily to organize and sync secrets between environments, with manually maintained .env files being one of the most c...
Three months ago we stopped using ENV files as the default export option in the Doppler CLI. This change led to a number of benefits including supporting multi-line variables and a deterministic schema. Before going too deep on the technical choices ...
