A company is integrating ECS with OpenStack Swift. They have a requirement that the Swift integration must be configured using only the ECS management API, and the configuration must be version-controlled. The administrator is writing a script that will be stored in a Git repository. What is the best practice for handling the API credentials in the script?

Hardcode the credentials in the script and restrict access to the repository

Store the credentials in the script as plain text

Use the root account credentials for the API calls

Use environment variables or a secrets manager to provide credentials at runtime

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