not commiting it to version control is the right thing to do, but using it as source of truth for your variables is simplest thing to do, if one needs unified way of injecting secrets, from various sources there are tool out there like tlr.dev/ which can source secrets from AWS, Vault, etc. all in one place without even using any SDK. That totally depends on choice of the devs.
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not commiting it to version control is the right thing to do, but using it as source of truth for your variables is simplest thing to do, if one needs unified way of injecting secrets, from various sources there are tool out there like tlr.dev/ which can source secrets from AWS, Vault, etc. all in one place without even using any SDK. That totally depends on choice of the devs.