GitLeaks in Your CI/CD Pipeline — Automated Secret Scanning
Setting up GitLeaks for automated secret detection in GitHub Actions, pre-commit hooks, and continuous integration pipelines
You know not to commit secrets to git. But knowing and doing are different things. A moment of distraction, a quick test with a real API key, a config file copied from production — and suddenly there's a secret in your git history. Once it's there, git rm doesn't help. The secret lives in every commit, every clone, every fork, forever. Or at least until you take drastic measures.
GitLeaks is a tool that catches secrets before they make it into your repository. It scans your code for patterns that look like API keys, passwords, tokens, and credentials. Run it as a pre-commit hook (catches secrets before they're committed), in your CI/CD pipeline (catches secrets before they're merged), or against your entire git history (finds secrets that already leaked).
Prevention is infinitely
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