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How to add Build time env var through doctl in a Functions namespace

I’ve recently started working with “Functions” service in Golang. As I understand, I need a namespace to test it out with doctl, and it seems to me that it is totally different than App Platform.

Now a need to use a private Go module from GitHub has arised, and I found out from this and this documentation that I need to set a GO_GIT_CRED__HTTPS__GITHUB__COM build time env var. I know I can do it in App Platform, but I need to do the same in a namespace, so that I can test it out locally using doctl and push it to the Production App Platform.

So far I have tried to add the above env var into project.yml but it seems unfruitful. I get the following:

go mod download: github.com/CyberCitizen01/HighLow/core@v0.0.0-20221219074058-5e7784f2218b: invalid version: git fetch -f origin refs/heads/*:refs/heads/* refs/tags/*:refs/tags/* in /tmp/go/pkg/mod/cache/vcs/642ca7a2cf3bf96e7ac2e10395c4ae76f4d7bb66b0d13784004f523d66c63b37: exit status 128:
        fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': terminal prompts disabled

Note: I’ve tried the username:pat syntax for GO_GIT_CRED__HTTPS__GITHUB__COM and yet it results in the same above error.

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Greg M
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• December 19, 2022

Hey @CyberCitizen01, can you try adding that env var in a .env file (or similar) and passing the path to that file to the --build-env flag in doctl serverless deploy?

i.e.

cat <<EOF > /path/to/serverless/repo/build.env
GO_GIT_CRED__HTTPS__GITHUB__COM=<whatever>
EOF

#...
doctl serverless deploy /path/to/serverless/repo --build-env /path/to/serverless/repo/build.env

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