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I understand the reluctance to add extra dependencies (especially environment-specific ones), but in the case of a typical Ruby app, it amounts to the 'aws-sdk' gem and 1 or 2 lines in an initializer.

For my own purposes, I weighed that against the alternatives[1], and it seems like a fairly reasonable compromise[2]. That won't be the case for everyone, obviously.

[1] http://elasticcompute.io/2016/01/21/runtime-secrets-with-doc...

[2] I'm referring specifically to passing secrets (or other static values) into a container, since that seems to be what the author was talking about. For configuration requiring more complexity, of course other tools are probably more appropriate. In that case, it's outside the scope of what I would reasonably expect ECS to do.