Ask HN: Prevent Secrets from Committing to Repos
3 abhijais1 1 6/15/2025, 2:05:42 PM
Hey I have been working on a solution to prevent secrets from committing to VCS repos, so far have prevented 10+ AWS keys from accidentally being committed.
Github has an offering but it's very costly for our team.
Does anyone of you want to try out ?
For instance in Python, you initialize an object using
When you use IAM identity center, you get temporary access keys which you assign to environment variables and the keys are automatically picked up.Even if you use “aws configure” and have long lasting keys (don’t do that), your keys will be stored in your home directory, nowhere near your repository and still usable locally.
When running your code on AWS, whatever you are using to run it on will get permission from the IAM role attached to the Lambda, EC2, etc.