<p>I have a docker-compose file that connects an app with a database.
I'm using docker secrets to hide sensitive data, such as in this case DB credentials, while I can do so with the database service, I'm not able to do the same within the app service, specifically the ConnectionString.
I couldn't find much in the documentation regarding this, neither did I find such cases online, there is one example that is given in the documentation with Wordpress service that suggests the solution I'm seeking, but that seems to be only Wordpress related.
Where do I go from here?</p>
<p>Wordpress example in documentation:</p>
<pre><code> wordpress:
     depends_on:
       - db
     image: wordpress:latest
     ports:
       - &quot;8000:80&quot;
     environment:
       WORDPRESS_DB_HOST: db:3306
       WORDPRESS_DB_USER: wordpress
       WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD_FILE: /run/secrets/db_password
     secrets:
       - db_password
</code></pre>
<p>My docker-compose file:</p>
<pre><code>version: '3.8'

services:
  testapp:
    image: testapp
    depends_on:
      - testapp_db
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: TestApp/Dockerfile
    environment:
      - ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Development
      - ASPNETCORE_URLS=http://+:80
      # This works
      - ConnectionStrings__DefaultConnection=Server=testapp_db;Database=TestApp;UserId=postgres;Password=postgres;
      # But I want to do something like this
      - ConnectionStrings__DefaultConnection=/run/secrets/connection_string 
    ports:
      - &quot;60001:80&quot;
    secrets:
      - connection_string
    networks:
      - testapp-network

  testapp_db:
    image: postgres:latest
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER_FILE: /run/secrets/db_user
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD_FILE: /run/secrets/db_password
      POSTGRES_DB: TestApp
    ports:
      - &quot;5500:5432&quot;
    volumes:
       - postgres-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
       - ./Persistence/Scripts/db_init.sql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/create_tables.sql
    restart: always
    secrets:
      - db_user
      - db_password
    networks:
       - testapp-network

volumes:
  postgres-data:

secrets:
  db_password:
    file: ./run/secrets/docker-postgres/db_password

  db_user:
    file: ./run/secrets/docker-postgres/db_user

  connection_string:
    file: ./run/secrets/docker-postgres/connection_string

networks:
  testapp-network:
    driver: bridge
</code></pre>

<p>It's actually not related to <strong>WordPress</strong>, it's general purpose only you can use similar way <em>Docker mounts</em> the <strong>secret</strong> content at <code>/run/secrets/connection_string</code></p>
<p>Your code can read the variable and it will get <strong>path</strong> from there which is <code>/run/secrets/connection_string</code> now your code can read that file runtime and get the content of the <strong>secret</strong> as simple as that</p>
<p>Here you can refer my Github repo for example : <a href="https://github.com/harsh4870/docker-compose-secret" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/harsh4870/docker-compose-secret</a></p>
<p>Node js example code : <a href="https://github.com/harsh4870/docker-compose-secret/blob/main/index.js" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/harsh4870/docker-compose-secret/blob/main/index.js</a></p>
<p><strong>Update</strong></p>
<p>you can use write docker-compose file with <strong>entrypoint</strong> will set the Environment variable from a file and after that it will the <strong>Main</strong> process</p>
<pre><code>version: '3'
services:
  redis-server: 
    image: 'redis'
  node-app:
    secrets:
      - connection_string
    build: .
    restart: &quot;no&quot;
    entrypoint: [ &quot;sh&quot;, &quot;-c&quot;, &quot;export connection=$(cat /run/secrets/connection_string) &amp;&amp; npm start&quot;]  
    ports:
      - &quot;4001:8000&quot;
secrets:
  connection_string:
    file: ./connection_string
</code></pre>
<p>You application or code will be able to use Env var <strong>connection</strong> and access <strong>direct value</strong></p>
