How To Commit Your Cloud Credentials To Version Control Systems
Last Updated on July 20, 2023 by Editorial Team
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Commit your cloud credentials to version control systems securely

In this article, I will share a way to securely commit sensitive information to version control systems (VCS). The focus will be on committing AWS credentials, but the method applies to Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as well.
The code to reproduce the results can be found here.
This article is intended for data scientists; you do not come from a software development background and hence aren’t aware of software engineering best practices. However, judging by this search result, it seems developers, in general, can benefit too.
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