Container teams struggle to deliver secrets safely
Teams building and deploying containerized applications need private package, Git, registry, and service credentials in different parts of their workflow. Build arguments can expose secrets or store them in generated output, while file-based secret delivery can require changes to apps that expect environment variables. Today’s workarounds include runtime initialization, entrypoint scripts, and manual token setup, and the requests point to gaps across several platform-specific integrations.
For devOps and platform engineers running containerized applications. Mentioned from Mar 2019 to Aug 2026 on GitHub, Hacker News and Stack Exchange.
25 different people described this problem in 13 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 6.0/10
- Pain
- 6.1/10
- Frequency
- 10.0/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 4.7/10
- Who pays
- Businesses
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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The only workarounds currently seems to be to either: 1. use plaintext string build args (could be problematic from a security point of view) 2. pass the secret as a runtime parameter to the container, run some initialization logic using the secret on container startup (can have a significant performance impact, and je…
I'd prefer to have the packages restored during the Docker build, but I cannot find a way to securely provide the token to the Docker build step
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