We code and push to an online repository almost every day but are we taking that step of keeping our codebase secure in this guide you get to know some steps you can take to keep a secure codebase.
Secrets
One way to make your codebase secure is hiding all secret credentials like passwords, API keys, and many more before pushing to an online repository on sharing your code file with anyone, with Onboardbase hiding secrets is made possible.
What is Onboardbase?
Onboardbase is a collaborative and secure workspace for dev teams to share app secrets and credentials. By acting as a single source of truth for all your app secrets, it’s the most efficient way to automatically secure your application keys.
Packages
You might be wondering how a package can make your codebase vulnerable, yes it can as a developer you are expected to know about a package before installing and using it in a project, in general using a trusted and up-to-date package helps keep a codebase secure.
Here are few things that determine if a package is secure to use:
- Last released update
- Using JavaScript's
npm audit - Public reviews
- Can it be found on package manager like pypi, npm etc.
CI Or Continuous Integration
CI or Continuous Integration is the practice of automating the integration of code changes from multiple developers into a single codebase. It is a software development practice where the developers commit their work frequently into the central code repository (Github or Gitlab).
Third Party Tools
Using 3rd party tools can be good and help you in one way or the other just like packages you use but being aware of what they do in your codebase can help make your codebase secure. one way of making your codebase secure is hiding all secrets like passwords, API keys, and many more before pushing to your repository or sharing your codes with anyone with the help of Onboardbase hiding secrets is made possible. Onboardbase.com
Private Repository
One of the most secure ways to make your codebase less vulnerable is making your repository private, it means that you are the only one that has access to it and it would be hard for anyone to get access except you grant them the access.
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