Folders

Organize your secrets with folders

Infisical’s folder feature lets you store secrets at a specific folder; we also call this path-based secret storage. This is great for organizing secrets around hierarchies when multiple services, types of secrets, etc. are involved at great quantities. With folders that can go infinitely deep, you can mirror your application architecture (be it microservices or monorepos) or any logical grouping that best suits your needs.

Consider the following structure for a microservice architecture:

| service1
|---- envars
|---- users
|-------- tokens1
|-------- tokens2
| service2
|---- envars
...

In this example, we store environment variables for each microservice under each respective /envars folder. We also store user-specific secrets for micro-service 1 under /service1/users. With this folder structure in place, your applications only need to specify a path like /microservice1/envars to fetch secrets from there. By extending this example, you can see how path-based secret storage provides a versatile approach to manage secrets for any architecture.

Folders

Managing folders

To add a folder, press the downward chevron to the right of the Add Secret button; then press on the Add Folder button.

Folder names can only contain alphabets, numbers, and dashes

To delete a folder, hover over it and press the X button that appears on the right side.

Comparing folders

It’s possible to compare the contents of folders across environments in the Secrets Overview page. When you click on a folder, the table will display the items within it across environments.

In the image below, you can see that the Development environment is the only one that contains items in the /users folder, being other folders /user-a, /user-b, … /user-f.