License key usage policy

[Alcide]

Hello,

in the "Installing License Key" guide it is specified the license key is personal. But in the "Adding the License Key to CI/CD Services" section it is suggested to create an environment variable to store the license key value. Now because the CD/CD platform in my company is located in cloud and it is shared between all the developers I suppose we need to ask to one of our developers to share with everybody else his personal license key in order to set it as an environment variable in cloud. In my opinion this use case reveals a sort of mismatch in the usage of license key as a "personal".  Is there a way to avoid to use a personal license key as a environment variable?

Thanks,

Alcide

 

 

[Martin Ivanov]

Hello Alcide,

Currently, it is expected to use the personal key of one of the developers working on the project. If you want to hide this information you can consider using the "secrets" feature of your CI/CD service. For example, in the context of GitHub you can use the action secrets as shown here with the NuGet packages keys. Or you can use secret variables in Azure DevOps.

Regards,
Martin Ivanov
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