Are environment variables in .env added when running fly launch to build from a local environment? I deployed an app and did not set any secret’s for my environment variables but the app worked “out of the box” This would not work with Heroku and would need to be added first. So am I right ti ass…

You can use --build-arg SECRET=abc which will be interpreted as an environment variable by buildpacks. Have you tried this yet? Build arguments can also be set on the command line.

Clarification on Environment variables

ignoramous December 20, 2022, 6:03pm 17

With build-time secrets? Best practice for build-time secrets? - #2 by fideloper-fly

Store these secrets in your OS’ keychain / keystore, or your CI’s vault, depending on where you’re building the docker image.

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