8.3 Environment Secrets

Orbnetes deployment and release orchestration documentation for operators and platform teams.

Environment Secrets are sensitive entries tied to a specific environment inside a project (for example qa, staging, prod).

Use Environment Secrets for:

  • production-only credentials,
  • per-environment external service tokens,
  • region/stage-specific confidential values.

Characteristics:

  • Applied only when that environment is selected at launch.
  • Prevents accidental use of production credentials in lower environments.
  • Enables one blueprint to run safely across multiple environments.

When to choose Environment Secret:

  • Same key exists but value differs by environment.
  • Strong isolation between environments is required.