Changing secret key

Hi,

I am migrating my application to kubernetes. I’m using Pipelines to deploy my app, but when i try to pass in the secert key as an environment variable i get and error cause the secret key contains special characters and it seems the the yml doesn’t like it.

I can escape the special characters to make it work, but im worried if i make a mistake on the escaping the chartacters what will happen?

I know that it will potentially log the users out, and password reset links wont work. But is there anything major i need to think about?

My main concern is anything to do with the data in the database?

Thanks

What the SECRET_KEY is used for is described in the docs.

No. The secret key is in no way related to anything in your database.