I really like my applications to at least try to reestablish dropped connections though. But I do appreciate the minimization mindset with respect to secrets.

I really like my applications to at least try to reestablish dropped connections though. But I do appreciate the minimization mindset with respect to secrets. The last time I was responsible for the scaffolding of a new software service it supported reading secrets from a file. It confused the operations team and I was just told to include support for an environment variable. Oh well, I tried.