April 4, 2025

User Secrets support in Gitpod

We’re excited to announce that Gitpod now supports User secrets, alongside existing Project secrets.

With this new feature, you can:

• Configure personal secrets for all of your Environments
• Integrate against 3rd party systems which use Personal Access Tokens to authenticate seamlessly, and even use atuin to have persistent terminal history in your Environments.

Highlights:

• Files: Secrets can be mounted as files for complex structures e.g. JSON.
• Environment Variables: Inject secrets as environment variables.

What’s the benefit of files? Files offer better security by avoiding issues like process visibility, crash logging leaks, and unintentional inheritance by child processes.

Learn how to configure your personal secrets in our documentation.