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title: "How to Create and Use Secrets in Okteto - Video Walkthrough"
description: "Learn all about creating and using secrets in Okteto in this video tutorial by Abdul."
url: "https://www.okteto.com/blog/create-and-use-secrets-in-okteto/"
source: "https://www.okteto.com"
---

# How to Create and Use Secrets in Okteto - Video Walkthrough

In this latest video walkthrough, you’ll learn all about how to create and use secrets in Okteto.

## What are secrets?

When you’re developing an application you’ll often have confidential information or tokens that you don’t want to leave exposed. Normally, you’ll save this information locally, but what happens when you want to use Okteto and you’re concerned about how you will store these secrets?

That’s where Okteto’s secrets management can help.

For more information on secrets, [check out our docs](https://okteto.com/docs/cloud/secrets/#manage-okteto-secrets-from-the-okteto-cloud-ui).

## Video summary

In this video, we'll deploy a sample application and learn how to configure secrets in settings, then redeploy the app and take a look at the endpoint.

If you enjoyed this video, please be sure to give us a like and [subscribe to our YouTube channel here](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXYaFkiXHdBA7fjKgEgSJfA)!

## Resources:

-   Follow Abdul on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/kvng_zeez/)
-   Video on [how to develop with Okteto](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0SobYDKVsM/)
-   Visit [https://okteto.com](https://okteto.com/) and give it a try in seconds.