# API Key Best Practice

Any best practices for API keys? Do you use Login or Password or Secure Note?

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- Posted at: almost 6 years ago



## Comments
### Comment 1

We use the 1Password CLI to inject secrets into our dev environments instead of using .env files. It’s way more secure and I’d definitely recommend it as a best practice for any engineering team

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- Posted at: 23 days ago
- Author title: SDE @JUSPAY | Distributed, Scalable Backend Systems (Go, Java, Kafka, AWS) | Ex-Red Hat, Rupeek | 5⭐ CodeChef, LeetCode Guardian



### Comment 2


where is 
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- Posted at: about 5 years ago




## Related Product
[1Password](https://www.g2.com/products/1password/reviews)

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[Password Managers](https://www.g2.com/categories/password-managers)

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