Configuration must be available to the application without exposing credentials in source control, logs or browser code. What belongs in the runtime and which access controls matter?

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Use TLS, per-application users and virtual-host permissions. Keep management interfaces restricted and rotate credentials through the secret system. A routing key is not an authorization boundary; configure permissions around the exchanges and queues that each application is allowed to use.

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