# Introduction

Now that you have downloaded our CLI, we will now walk you through how to securely store, fetch, and inject environment variables (aka SECRETS) into your applications.

# Register and Login

Lets go ahead and register for an account. Then lets login to get started.

$ seekrit register -e hello@seekrit.io -p 12345678
# Check your email and accept invite.
$ seekrit login -e hello@seekrit.io -p 12345678

# Create an organization

An organization is used to hold ALL your teams and environment variables. We will go ahead and name ours "playground", since this organization's mission is to create a playground for learning. You will need create your own organization name that you would want to keep for all future use past this tutorial.

$ seekrit orgs:create playground

# Let's create our first project

A project lives within an organization and is typically named after the application you need to manage secrets for. Because this is our first project, lets name it "hello-world".

$ seekrit projects:create -o playground hello-world

# All projects need an environment

Environments allow you to create different sets of secrets within a project that are isolated from each other.

$ seekrit envs:create -o playground -p hello-world develop

# Automating our workflow! ⚙️

Lets use the link command to create a seekrit.json configuration file to avoid having to specify an organization, project, and environment on each command.

$ seekrit link -o playground -p hello-world -e develop

# Creating your first secret! 🔑

Creating a secret is simple, you just need to specify where you want to create the secret and assign it a name and value. Because we automated our workflow earlier, we can just focus on creating our secret.

# flag "-n" specifies the name of the secret and "-v" represents its value
$ seekrit secrets:create -n foo -v bar

# Verifying our progress ✅

Let's do a list call to fetch all secrets that we will be injecting into our application in the next step.

$ seekrit secrets:list
Fetching Secrets... done

foo=bar

# Last step! Injecting our secrets 🎉 🚀 💥 💪

Congratulations! We are now ready to spin up a process with all your secrets injected into its environment variables. In the example below, we used the printenv command to verify that our secrets got injected successfully.

$ seekrit run -- printenv
Injecting secrets into environment... done

foo=bar