From the course: Microservices: Security

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Prevent leaked credentials

Prevent leaked credentials

- [Narrator] One of the best ways to secure your microservices is to add automated verifications into a CI/CD pipeline with static security analysis tools. To show you how these tools can provide immediate security, we're going to walk through a pull request workflow using Azure DevOps, where I've enabled a credential scanner in my pipeline. So I have this change sitting in Git that I just finished. This change updates the password that our microservice uses for its database connection. Unfortunately, we have to rotate this password every 90 days, so we need this change for our microservice to continue pulling data from the database. Everything looks good here locally, so I'm going to go ahead and push this change up to Azure DevOps so that I can create a pull request. All right, let's head over to Azure DevOps and we can get to work on that pull request. All right, here we can see that my changes were detected and I can click on the Create a pull request button, which will allow me…

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