[mihular]

What about non swarm containers? Like straight docker and docker-compose?

[odc]

docker-compose 1.11.0 will be released soon with support for secrets, probably using the same system.

[diogomonicapt]

Exactly. The new version of compose supports defining docker secrets inside of the compose file.

[mihular]

But the question is whether secrets can be used outside swarm. It doesn't look so at first glance.

[nicolaka]

secrets only work with Swarm services. New compose (1.11) uses a new format version ( v3.1) that allows you to add secrets for services and deploy using docker client ( no need for docker-compose). I don't think there's any plans atm to support secrets for non-swarm containers :(