I love how easy Docker makes self-hosting. I can spin up an application, connect to a database, add a few settings, and have everything running with just a handful of commands. But that simplicity also made me careless about how I handled sensitive information. As I added more containers to my server, I started noticing just how often credentials, tokens, and other secrets became part of my deployment process. Nothing had gone wrong, but I knew I was relying too much on convenience. So, I made one small change to the way I manage my credentials, passcodes, and secrets in Docker deployments. It didn’t make my setup complicated, but it made me much more comfortable with it.