What is the appropriate password storage approach?

Refer to the exhibit.

A developer created a Python script to retrieve interface information for the devices in a MeraKi network environment. A security analyst has reviewed the code and observed poor secret storage practices.

What is the appropriate password storage approach?
A . Set the Base64 encoded version of the API key as MER_API_KEY in the code and Base64 decode before using in the header.
B. Set an OS environment variable for MER_API_KEY to the API key during running the code and longer set MER_API_KEY within the code.
C. Create a secret for the API key, set MER_API_KEY using the value from the secret in the Pod. and no longer set MER_API_KEY within the code.
D. Leverage an external secret vault to retrieve MER_API_KEY and embed the vault key as a new variable before running the code.

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Answer: D