Learning GitHub Actions for DevOps CI/CD - GitHub Actions Store Your Secrets and Passwords Securely

The video tutorial explains the importance of securely handling secrets in GitHub workflows. It highlights the risks of storing sensitive information like passwords in source code and introduces GitHub's built-in feature for securely storing secrets. The tutorial demonstrates how to create repository secrets, access them in workflows, and use them as environment variables. It emphasizes GitHub's encryption methods to protect secrets and shows how to verify secret usage without exposing their values.

What is the significance of using environment variables for secrets?

What does GitHub do when you try to print a secret value?

Describe the process of creating an environment variable from a secret.