Storing ENV Variables in Secrets Manager
If you'd like to, you can provide environment variables to your tines-app and tines-sidekiq task definitions through AWS Secrets Manager. This is not essential, but can be done for improved security.
First, create a new secret↗ in AWS Secrets Manager for the environment variable using the name of the variable and its value as the key-value pair. Next, in ECS console, navigate to the task definition that will use the environment variable, and create a new revision. Under the Environment variables section, click Add environment variable. For consistency, use the same Key that you used for the secret. The Value type should be ValueFrom , and the Value is the Secret ARN from the Secrets Manager.
You might also be interested in storing your database credentials in the Secrets Manager. See here↗ for information on how to do that.