Configuration variables and secret variables are two different things, Stop treating them as one.
Introduction Secret handling is one of those tasks where you have to be very careful. If you have been developing application there is a good chance that you came access the method of storing secrets in a .env file. Something like this $ cat .env

USERNAME=XXXXX
PASSWORD=XXXXX
MONGO_URI=XXXX These files are…
Configuration variables and secret variables are two different things, Stop treating them as one. Introduction Secret handling is one of those tasks where you have to be very careful. If you have been developing application there is a good chance that you came access the method of storing secrets in a .env file. Something like this $ cat .env

USERNAME=XXXXX
PASSWORD=XXXXX
MONGO_URI=XXXX These files are… security
Configuration variable secret variable two different thing Stop treating one Introduction Secret handling one task careful developing application good chance came access method storing secret env file Something like cat env USERNAMEXXXXX PASSWORDXXXXX MONGOURIXXXX file are… security