AIBC · Week 5
Week 5 – Environments & Secrets
Ship without leaking keys
Focus for this week
Learn how to manage configuration for dev vs prod and protect sensitive keys and URLs.
Skills & concepts
- • Environment variables for API keys and connection strings
- • Basic config patterns for dev/staging/prod
- • Using secret stores in Replit / Vercel / n8n
- • Simple health checks to confirm services are alive
Weekly deliverable
A deployed version of your app with secrets stored correctly and a quick health-check endpoint.