AsheKR/dotenv-action

Provide common parameters via .env file

dotenv action

It reads the .env file from the root of this repo and provides environment variables to build steps.

Inputs

path

Override the path to the .env file. Default is .env in the repository root.

log-variables

Log variables after reading from the .env file.

mask-variables

Mask values after reading from the .env file.

Outputs

generic

Whatever is present in the .env file will be converted into an output variable.

E.g. you have the following .env:

VERSION=1.0
AUTHOR=Mickey Mouse

Then you will have outputs:

{
    version: "1.0"
    author: "Mickey Mouse"
}

Example usage

id: dotenv
uses: ./.github/actions/dotenv-action

Then later you can refer to the alpine version like this ${{ steps.dotenv.outputs.version }}