CI/CD
Giving CI only the secrets it needs
Long-lived CI tokens work from anywhere until revoked. How to scope pipeline secrets, keep production out of CI, and bind tokens to a repo with OIDC.
Checklists and habits for everyday secrets work: offboarding, sharing with contractors, cleaning up chat history and narrowing what CI can reach.
CI/CD
Long-lived CI tokens work from anywhere until revoked. How to scope pipeline secrets, keep production out of CI, and bind tokens to a repo with OIDC.
Teams
Removing an account takes seconds. Secrets outlive it. A practical checklist for engineering offboarding, from sessions and tokens to reissuing values.
Teams
Contractors need real credentials for real work. How to hand one over without leaving it in chat forever, and how to end their access cleanly afterwards.
Example. Kiteline is a fictional company.
Secrets
Pasting a .env file into chat feels harmless. Where those values end up, why they outlive the conversation, and how to clean up what is already there.