Managing Duplicated Environment Variables Across Docker Compose Services in CI/CD
A developer running a multi-service Docker Compose stack struggles to manage environment variables consistently between the root .env and per-service .env files when generating them from a CI/CD pipeline. Values end up duplicated or out of sync between the pipeline-generated secrets and the environment files each service expects.
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