Replacing SECRET_KEY in production?

Question

Django

Connoisseurs, tell me, is it possible to transfer the secret key and setrtings.py in general (with the latest changes in media, static, allowed host) to production?

Why did you doubt? when I read about deploying with git, I don’t remember that it was recommended not to touch this key, but I deployed the project traditionally through startproject. In the SECRET_KEY settings it is very different from the local key. What to do here, do you need to protect it when creating it?

Answer 1

You need to take care, all passwords, SECRET_KEY and other sensitive information are not stored in git, but are set, for example, through environment variables: or use either
SECRET_KEY = os.environ.get('DJANGO_SECRET_KEY')