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What's the best way to add many environment variables to an App Platform service?
- Posted November 30, 2020
- DigitalOcean App Platform
We’re attempting to build a Laravel app on the App Platform, and for those unaware, the default .env file for a Laravel project is pretty long (ours is about twice this size):
APP_NAME=Laravel
APP_ENV=local
APP_KEY=
APP_DEBUG=true
APP_URL=http://localhost
LOG_CHANNEL=stack
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=laravel
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=
BROADCAST_DRIVER=log
CACHE_DRIVER=file
QUEUE_CONNECTION=sync
SESSION_DRIVER=file
SESSION_LIFETIME=120
REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1
REDIS_PASSWORD=null
REDIS_PORT=6379
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=null
MAIL_PASSWORD=null
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1
AWS_BUCKET=
PUSHER_APP_ID=
PUSHER_APP_KEY=
PUSHER_APP_SECRET=
PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER=mt1
MIX_PUSHER_APP_KEY="${PUSHER_APP_KEY}"
MIX_PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER="${PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER}"
Obviously copy/pasting them all into the web UI isn’t ideal, and neither is committing the .env file to version control.
What’s the best way of getting these environment variables into the app?
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My strategy has been to locally save the yaml file:
Then edit and don’t submit to version control but use doctl to update my app https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#update-an-app
More on doctl and app platform: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/app-platform/references/command-line/
Works like a charm.