deploy/stack.yaml arrived in the first commit and was never deployed. Portainer
runs the repository's docker-compose.yml. Keeping both meant two definitions
drifting apart, with the documentation naming the one nobody used, which is how
the credential question came up at all.
The hardening it offered is narrower than it looks: Docker secrets keep values
out of docker inspect and the Portainer console, but local/secrets.py loads them
into the process environment regardless, and anyone able to read docker inspect
can already read the secret files. With a single Portainer user, the benefit that
remains does not outweigh maintaining a divergent copy.
local/secrets.py stays: inert against the deployed file, and it lets a stack
switch to Docker secrets later without touching code. The preflight and its tests
degrade cleanly when no such stack is present.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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