A mechanism for securely storing and managing secrets such as API keys and passwords.
A mechanism for securely storing, distributing, and rotating secrets such as API keys and certificates, used to avoid hard-coding them into source code. Accidents where an API key gets written directly into source code and then leaked, say by an accidental public GitHub push, remain common, so best practice pairs centralizing secrets in a dedicated tool with code scanning to catch anything that slips through.
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