Feature Request: Environment Variables in UI

[RobertD]

Hi there,

I just migrated from Heroku because of a raft of issues with them (including the free tier disappearing).

The process was incredibly seamless.

Although:

I would like to request updating environment variables using the UI.

That was a really nice feature of Heroku that makes things easy!

[ignoramous]

+1 Fly should add a UI element for env variables.

It has been asked before, but for secrets. Though, in that scenario, for Fly, security trumps dev-ex (rightfully so):

Why is `fly secrets list` not showing the values?

Our API doesn’t have access to the contents of secrets. When you set a secret through the API, we seal it in a software HSM, to which our API server has no access (we currently store an authenticator tag of the secret so you can match them up between apps, but I’m dubious about the value of this feature and lobbying to get rid of it). You can, of course, recover secrets by SSH’ing into an app, or, for that matter, deploying a new version of your code that simply logs the secret in plaintext; at…

[RobertD]

Just to clarify. I used to use the ‘environment variables’ in Heroku which can be edited in the UI.

(perhaps it can be behind a certain permission?).

This would be extremely useful for setting up and changing. Seeing as the API call is already there it probably is not so much work!

[RobertD]

Or even just to overwrite what was there without having to boot up the command line!