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    For the past five years my wife and I have built increasingly elaborate props for our yard and charity haunted house. We make a great team because I enjoy building the mechanical, electronic, and software pieces to make things run and she, as a designer,...
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    The Problem, You have a dockerized application that needs 50+ environment variables that are different based on the execution environment. Let me explain how I made this completely painless with some clever design and hashicorp's vault...

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