The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. Applications often require access to small pieces of sensitive data at build or run time, referred to as secrets. Secrets are generally more sensitive than other environment variables or parts of your repository as they may grant access to additional data, such as user data. HashiCorp Vault
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