Developer Teams Struggle with Secrets Management Workflows
Development teams juggle .env files, share credentials via Slack, and lack a standard approach to secrets management. With 29 million secrets leaked on GitHub in 2025, the problem remains widespread despite existing tools like Vault and Doppler.
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