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You are building an application that runs on Cloud Run. The application needs to access a third- party API by using an API key. You need to determine a secure way to store and use the API key in your
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Submitted by klara.se· Apr 18, 2026Applying site reliability engineering principles to a service
Question
You are building an application that runs on Cloud Run. The application needs to access a third- party API by using an API key. You need to determine a secure way to store and use the API key in your application by following Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
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- ASave the API key in Secret Manager as a secret. Reference the secret as an environment
- BSave the API key in Secret Manager as a secret key. Mount the secret key under the /sys/api_key
- CSave the API key in Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) as a key. Reference the key
- DEncrypt the API key by using Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS), and pass the key to
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#Cloud Run#Secret Manager#API Key Management#Application Security