docs(contributing): How create or change SECRET_KEY #23420
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Explained how to change/create secret key.
SUMMARY
When you are running an instance of superset naturally you might have added many DataBase connections, created a lot of charts and dashboards.
Suddenly if you want to change the SECRET_KEY to make your data encrypted , you need current secret key that has already encrypted your data.
Then you need to create a new SECRET_KEY
BEFORE/AFTER SCREENSHOTS OR ANIMATED GIF
BEFORE SCREENSHOT
AFTER SCREENSHOT
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
To change the SECRET_KEY we need to provide current secret key as PREVIOUS_SECRET_KEY in superset_config.py and New secret key should be assigned to SECRET_KEY variable.