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Best practice for docker compose passwords? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 year ago by hyper@lemmy.zip to c/docker@programming.dev
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For example I have a docker compose stack with a service and a db.
How do you handle the passwords? Is it better to store them in a .env file or is there something different entirely?

Also do the passwords have to be strong if the db is only available to the service through the docker network?

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[-] object_Object@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If the value is still passed as an environment variable in the end, it can be read via /proc/:pid/environ from another container or from the host if they are both using the same UID (or has --cap-add SYS_PTRACE)

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, didn't think about that. Well, at least it works.

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