Scalable Cloud Ops with Fugue

Sharing Refuge Passwords and Secrets with Fugue

There you have it. You are now a Vars user—congratulations! Now that we have some of the basics of how to work with the Vars keystore under our belts, it’s time to get into some more specific use cases. First, we’ll revisit our social network, Refuge. As code-sharing and collaboration services like GitHub and Bitbucket are becoming more and more prevalent in the software-development ecosystem, we hear stories time and again of organizations accidentally committing passwords and secrets into their code repositories. Even in an environment where you may not be using third-party services to store your code, it’s still considered an ill-advised and insecure practice to hard-code passwords into your ...