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Automatic Deployment on Git: where to put .env

Posted on March 13, 2021
GitHub Actions Laravel
Asked by adapt

Hi,

I’m just getting my feet wet with Docker, and automatic deployment to Digital Ocean from git. What are best practices to deal with the .env file? In particular, my repo is public but I’d like to keep the .env file away from prying eyes. It sounds like I would nee to commit it to my deploy branch, but course, I wouldn’t want it in my commits. How can I keep it private while making use of the automatic deployment?

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Bobby Iliev

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• March 14, 2021

Accepted Answer

Hi there,

Indeed your secrets should not be checked into Git. What you could do instead is add your passwords as secrets in GitHub. That way they will be stored securely and no one will have access to them.

Here are 2 good resources on how to do that:

Hope that this helps. Regards, Bobby