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# Mounting secrets with Docker

How to load Snyk Broker secrets such as tokens from files instead of environment variables with Docker

Sometimes it is required to load sensitive configurations, the GitHub or Snyk token, from a file instead of from environment variables. Broker is using [dotenv](https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv) to load the config, so the process is relatively simple:

* Create a file named `.env` and put your sensitive configuration there.
* Mount this file, for example, using a [Kubernetes secret](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/inject-data-application/distribute-credentials-secure/#create-a-pod-that-has-access-to-the-secret-data-through-a-volume)). Mount the file to be somewhere like `/broker`.
* Change the workdir of the docker image to be `/broker/`. An example of such file is located in your broker container at $HOME/.env.


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