One of the points I made in my recent NDC talk on 12 Factor microservices, was that you shouldn’t be storing sensitive data, such as API keys, usernames, passwords etc. in the environment variables. Don’t Store Sensitive Data in the Environment My reasoning is that when you were accessing Environment Variables in Heroku’s platform, you were actually accessing some (probably) secure key-value store, rather than actual environment variables. While you can use something like Consul’s key...
