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11. Secrets

Radoslav Gatev1  
(1)
Gorna Oryahovitsa, Bulgaria
 

Sooner than later, a service will have to use one or more secrets to access other systems – whether it is an API key, a password, or something sensitive. In this chapter, you will learn what challenges the secrets impose on your applications and what are the bad practices that you have to stay away from. After a short introduction about what secret managers are and what benefits they bring to the table, you will learn how Dapr simplifies the retrieval of secrets with the Secrets building block. ...

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