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by MollyRealized 1244 days ago
In this context, what does the noun (secrets manager) and adjective (secret versioning) mean? Asking for purposes of learning. If this is laid out on a particular "for dummies" page, linkage would be appreciated ('secrets' being such a common word otherwise).

I asked ChatGPT, but this appeared to be one of its "there-is-no-horsehead-in-Godfather" moments.

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Yeah! It's not a common term - just something that we call it

Secret can technically be any piece of information (e.g., API-key, credential). Though it may also include some non-sensitive data like environment variables

Secret versioning is a feature which tells you how the secret was changed over time (you can think of it as google docs history); it also tells which user it was modified by

Thank you! I appreciate the education.