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---
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title: "Folders"
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description: "Organize your secrets with folders"
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---
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Infisical's folder feature lets you store secrets at a specific folder; we also call this **path-based secret storage**.
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This is great for organizing secrets around hierarchies when multiple services, types of secrets, etc. are involved at great quantities.
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With folders that can go infinitely deep, you can mirror your application architecture (be it microservices or monorepos)
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or any logical grouping that best suits your needs.
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Consider the following structure for a microservice architecture:
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```
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| service1
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|---- envars
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|---- users
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|-------- tokens1
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|-------- tokens2
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| service2
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|---- envars
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...
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```
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In this example, we store environment variables for each microservice under each respective `/envars` folder.
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We also store user-specific secrets for micro-service 1 under `/service1/users`. With this folder structure in place, your applications only need to specify a path like `/microservice1/envars` to fetch secrets from there.
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By extending this example, you can see how path-based secret storage provides a versatile approach to manage secrets for any architecture.
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## Folders
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### Managing folders
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To add a folder, press the downward chevron to the right of the **Add Secret** button; then press on the **Add Folder** button.
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<Info>
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Folder names can only contain alphabets, numbers, and dashes
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</Info>
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To delete a folder, hover over it and press the **X** button that appears on the right side.
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### Comparing folders
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It's possible to compare the contents of folders across environments in the **Secrets Overview** page.
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When you click on a folder, the table will display the items within it across environments.
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In the image below, you can see that the **Development** environment is the only one that contains items
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in the `/users` folder, being other folders `/user-a`, `/user-b`, ... `/user-f`.
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