Company
Date Published
Author
Ryan Blunden
Word count
1608
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Modern application development requires automation of environment variable management, reflecting the needs of modern app dev. Centralized environment variable management is crucial but lacks first-class local dev support in most platforms and cloud providers. SecretOps aims to address this by centralizing secrets storage, providing flexible environment variable injection for every platform and cloud, increasing developer productivity through secrets automation workflows, and decreasing complexity of secrets management. Environment variable injection is preferred over .env files, which can be problematic due to security concerns. Doppler provides a solution with its CLI, allowing for dynamically injected environment variables, ephemeral .env files that are automatically cleaned up when the application exits, and integrations with various platforms and cloud providers such as Vercel, Heroku, and GitHub Secrets.