Configuring Environment Variables in Django
Discover how to configure environment variables in a Django project to securely manage sensitive settings like SECRET_KEY and database credentials. Learn to use the python-dotenv package to load variables from a .env file and update Django's settings.py to improve security and deployment practices.
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It is a bad habit to have sensitive information about our application available in the code. This is the case for the SECRET_KEY setting and the database settings in the settings.py file of the project. This is especially bad because we’ve pushed the code to GitHub. Let’s correct this.
Environment variables
An environment variable is a variable whose value is set outside the running code of the program. With Python, we can read files from a ...