Secrets Management - CI/CD Glossary Definition
Secrets management is the practice of storing, distributing, and rotating sensitive values such as API keys, tokens, and passwords without exposing them in code or logs. Dedicated tools encrypt secrets at rest and inject them at runtime.
In CI
GitHub Actions stores encrypted secrets and masks them in logs; for short-lived cloud access, OIDC federation avoids storing static keys at all.
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