Coding Clean, Reliable, and Safe REST APIs with ASP.NET Core 8: Develop Robust Minimal APIs with .NET 8

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A. GirettiCoding Clean, Reliable, and Safe REST APIs with ASP.NET Core 8https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9979-1_9

9. Managing Application Secrets

Anthony Giretti¹  

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La Salle, QC, Canada

 

Throughout this book, I've used sensitive data, a.k.a. secrets, for example, connection strings that may have been used to connect to a database, an APM, etc. The easiest way to make these secrets available is to save them in application configuration files named by environment (appsettings.json, appsettings.dev.json, appsettings.prod.json, a dedicated configuration file for each environment) and then push all these files into the GIT repository. GIT is a source code ...