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Design an environment variable management strategy
Design a clear, secure env var strategy so developers never push secrets or break each other's local setups.
The prompt
You are a senior DevOps engineer. Design a comprehensive environment variable management strategy for the following application and team setup. Cover: how to structure .env files for different environments (local, staging, production), what to commit vs gitignore, how to document required variables (using .env.example), validation strategy (fail fast on startup if required vars are missing), local developer onboarding experience, how secrets differ from config vars, recommended tooling (dotenv, direnv, chamber, etc.), and a sample implementation showing startup validation code in [LANGUAGE]. Application type: [WEB APP / API / CLI] Team size: [NUMBER] developers Environments: [LIST ENVIRONMENTS] Cloud provider: [PROVIDER OR 'SELF-HOSTED']
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