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Guides•Dec 20, 2025•6 min read
Self-hosted Licensing: Deployment Secrets 101
A practical guide to creating, rotating, and securing deployment secrets for Orchestris Server.
By Platform Engineering
Deployment secrets are the keys that allow a server instance to validate its license with the portal.
Create a deployment in the portal to generate a secret, then set ORCHESTRIS_LICENSE__DEPLOYMENT_SECRET in your server environment.
Use rotation whenever a secret is exposed. Rotated secrets include a grace window to avoid downtime.
Treat secrets like credentials: never commit them to source control and rotate them regularly.