Secrets refer to sensitive information such as passwords, API token, database credentials, or any other confidential data that is used to access and protect various resources in your software project.

An environment is where the code in a software project is executed. It allows you to track deployments of your application. Secrets that are stored in an environment are only available to workflow jobs that reference that environment.

Access keys provide programmatic access to, and the ability to decrypt, edit, and create secrets from the Locker CLI or Locker SDKs. You can have a maximum of two active access keys for a project at a time.