Gitlab runner fails to get postgres DATABASE_URL

[greg]

Hi,

Ah. The secrets Fly provides are only available to your app at run-time. For example process.env.SECRET (in the case of Node). Not at build time, which looks to be the issue you are having.

I’d recommend scrolling down this thread. It seems to be very similar, where they need the DATABASE_URL during the build part:

Build secret in Dockerfile not found

Hi, I’ve included the following code in my dockerfile to set the the DATABASE_URL env variable in a NextJS project, I am using the echo command to log the DATABASE_URL_SECRET variable first to check that it has been correctly added: # Set DATABASE_URL_SECRET RUN --mount=type=secret,id=DATABASE_URL_SECRET \ DATABASE_URL_SECRET="$(cat /run/secrets/DATABASE_URL_SECRET)" \ && echo "DATABASE_URL_SECRET: $DATABASE_URL_SECRET" # Set DATABASE_URL from DATABASE_URL_SECRET ENV DATABASE_URL=$DATABASE…

For a bit of background as to why that’s needed:

Build Secrets