App Store Connect API Key Path Confusion

[jhanstra]

I'm following these steps to understand how to submit my app to the app store: fyi/creating-asc-api-key.md. I know that my submit.production.ios object in my eas.json needs three properties:

"ascApiKeyPath": "",
"ascApiKeyIssuerId": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"ascApiKeyId": "xxxxxxx",

The guide is clear about how to get the ascApiKeyId and ascApiKeyIssuerId - thank you. But I am confused how to get the ascApiKeyPath. The guide doesn't say anything about it. I'm assuming I don't just provide the raw .p8 file in my repo and then give the path to it in the eas.json, as that would be a security concern? But I can't find any documentation on what goes in that field. Thank you in advance!

[amandeepmittal]

The ascApiKeyPath requires the file path of the .p8 file: https://docs.expo.dev/eas/json/#ascapikeypath. This file path would be git ignored in your project and won't be part of your app's bundle release. The EAS servers make use of this file and only require credentials. So I think that won't be a security concern.