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Turning Secrets into Systems

Why vault discipline is foundational for AI operations and how si encourages deterministic secret handling.

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Most failures around AI operations are not model failures. They are environment failures.

If credentials are scattered across ad hoc files, your runtime becomes non-deterministic. si treats secret handling as first-class operational state.

si vault status
si vault list --file .env.prod
si vault run --file .env.prod -- si build image

When secret workflows are repeatable, deployment workflows become repeatable.

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Written by Ashley B.

Platform Engineer

Ashley focuses on runtime reliability, execution safety, and lifecycle policies for multi-environment AI operations.