Storing secret keys in Django

[Theresa Taye]

Hello guys,

Please can anyone help with the best way to store/hide secret key in django and if possible share a link to a straight forward YouTube tutorial.

Thanks in anticipation

[Kasper Laudrup]

Hi Theresa,

On 25/09/2020 23.00, Theresa Taye wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> Please can anyone help with the best way to store/hide secret key in
> django and if possible share a link to a straight forward YouTube tutorial.
>

There's rarely a "best way", since use cases differ and people tend to
have different preferences, but I personally use django-configurations:

https://github.com/jazzband/django-configurations

And then use an environment variable for my secret key which is set in
the service file I use for starting my Django UWSGI application in
production.

Using django-configurations has the added benefit that I can easily have
different configurations in development and production and the secret
key is more or less the only thing I don't keep in revision control (git).

Of course, not sure if that's the "best way", but it's one way at least :-)

Kind regards,

Kasper Laudrup

[Theresa Taye]

Thank you Kasper
I appreciate this

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