All guides to deploy using docker mention typing your keys/credentials/secrets into the docker compose file, or use a .env or similar file, I’m wondering how secure is this and if there’s a better option.
Also, this has the issue of having to get into the server to manage them, remembering which file has each credential.
Is there a selfhostable secrets manager? I’ve only found proprietary/paid ones for large infrastructures and I just need it for a couple of my servers/projects.
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The suggestions here are good for production. Over used aws secret manager and hashicorp vault before and both did everything we needed.
I find they’re too much firepower for selfhosted, and prefer pass
https://github.com/peff/pass
Simple commandline tool, backed by a gpg encrypted git repo. Perfect for small use cases!