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Create a Guide/Template: How to Create Secrets in GitHub #67
Description
Overview
There are developers that need to create secrets for projects and are unaware of how to do so in GitHub. This causes an issue where Secrets are being used in a non-compliant way which increases our security risk.
Action Items
The phases in the guide-making process are listed below. Each phase displayed in blue is linked to a wiki page with instructions on how to complete that phase. Open the wiki page in a new tab, copy the instructions for each part into the section labeled 'Tasks' at the bottom of this issue, and complete each task listed.
- Gather Examples Solo (open in a new tab)
- Gather Examples Collaboratively
- Create a Guide Draft
- If needed, create a template
- Have your guide peer reviewed
- Present your guide for leadership review
Resources/Instructions
- Google Drive Folder for this Guide’s documents and shortcuts (to documents in other locations) 0067 [DRAFT] How to Create Secrets in GitHub
GitHub's documentation: Using secrets in GitHub Actions
Review this link to understand how someone might hack your secrets:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63003669/how-can-i-see-my-git-secrets-unencrypted
Projects to Check
Tasks
- This is where you will copy instructions from the wiki page for the step you are currently on.
Activity
erniep278 commentedon Jun 29, 2023
fyliu commentedon Jul 6, 2023
nyarly commentedon Jul 6, 2023
Aditya23soni commentedon Oct 4, 2024
Prior version of issue
Overview
There are developers that need to create secrets for projects and are unaware of how to do so in GitHub. This causes an issue where Secrets are being used in a non-compliant way which increases our security risk.
Action Items
Resources/Instructions
Here is the GitHub documentation about this:
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-guides/encrypted-secrets#creating-encrypted-secrets-for-an-environment
Highlight this a have it stand out more to developers.
Aditya23soni commentedon Oct 4, 2024
Assignee, Labels, Project Board Placement, and Milestones for this issue in the Ops Repo:
[-]Wiki Page Needed for Secrets Usage[/-][+]Create a Guide/Template: How to Create Secrets in GitHub[/+]16 remaining items
JesseTheCleric commentedon Feb 28, 2025
I have checked this guide issue, and all the Moving and Cleaning steps have been completed.