This depends on your configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible, Puppet, etc), basically how you deploy your software. In small projects I usually use Ansible script that:
copies the configuration file onto a server
runs the docker image of the program
In this case the configuration file is stored along with the Ansible script. This file can be encrypted using ansible-vault. This setup is not ideal but works quite well for small projects.
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This depends on your configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible, Puppet, etc), basically how you deploy your software. In small projects I usually use Ansible script that:
In this case the configuration file is stored along with the Ansible script. This file can be encrypted using
ansible-vault. This setup is not ideal but works quite well for small projects.