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Images can be extracted or shared, exposing secrets permanently. Secrets cannot be revoked once baked into images.
Quick Answer
Images are shareable and often public (or accessible to anyone with registry access). Baking secrets (API keys, DB passwords) into an image means everyone who pulls it gets the secrets — forever, even after you "delete" them, because they're in the layer history. Use environment variables or secrets managers at runtime instead.
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