Comment by stephbook
16 hours ago
"The environment" is not "environment variables" and not ".env files"
For cloud services, it would typically be called a vault. But it could also be a hardware security module (HSM) with bring-your-own-key (BYOK, eg for certificates.)
Ansible also calls it a vault and encrypts it with a password — that file you can check into version control.
Confidently wrong. Did you read the source I linked?
> The twelve-factor app stores config in environment variables
The vault of the cloud provider would just inject the value of the environment variable securely so it doesn't have to be stored on-disk. What the parent poster wrote isn't wrong.
The parent poster is wrongly quoting me to say the original post doesn't mean “env var”. Yes, it does mean env var.
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