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Asked: 2026-06-15T07:56:10+00:00

Authentication information such as database connection strings or passwords should almost never be stored

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Authentication information such as database connection strings or passwords should almost never be stored in version control systems.

It looks like the only method of specifying environment variables for an app hosted on OpenShift is to commit them to the Git repository. There is a discussion about this on the OpenShift forums, but no useful suggested workarounds for the problem.

Is there another approach I can use to add authentication information to my app without having to commit it to the repository?

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    SSH into you application and navigate to your data directory

    cd app-root/data

    in this directory create a file with your variables (e.g. “.myenv”) with content like

    export MY_VAR="something"

    and then in your repository in “.openshift/action_hooks/pre_start” add this line

    source ${OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR}/.myenv
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