The text highlights the issue of unencrypted secrets being stored on developer machines despite modern hosting platforms offering environment variable storage and secrets managers. It introduces SecretOps, a platform that provides centralized secrets storage with CLI integrations for syncing secrets to any environment or cloud secrets manager, solving this problem. The Doppler CLI is used to demonstrate dynamic secrets injection and ephemeral secrets files, which enable secure and encrypted storage of secrets in local development environments. This allows developers to use the same secrets access method on a per-application basis, providing a single source of truth for management while allowing teams to choose their preferred approach.