.env file doesn't get resolved

Question

.env file doesn't get resolved

Opened this issue 4 years ago · 8 comments

omertuc commented 4 years ago

See https://docs.docker.com/compose/environment-variables/#the-env-file

Example:

Answer 1 · 2020-04-11T16:02:53.000Z

what Compose version are you using?

Answer 2 · 2020-04-11T16:21:25.000Z

Do you have a test repo that we would be able to test and implement this with? From what I understand, we would only be able to implement this for .env files locally hosted on the developer's computer, but it is something we can add as an improvement

Answer 3 · 2020-04-11T19:59:13.000Z

what Compose version are you using?

$ docker-compose --version                                                                     [22:57:27]
docker-compose version 1.21.0, build unknown

Do you have a test repo that we would be able to test and implement this with? From what I understand, we would only be able to implement this for .env files locally hosted on the developer's computer, but it is something we can add as an improvement

~~Sure I'll set one up and link it here once it's ready~~ example repo. And of-course it's only for local .env file. docker-compose automatically looks for .env files in the same directory as the docker-compose.yml file

Check out python-dotenv, it might help you to develop this feature. It's what more recent versions of docker-compose use to parse the .env file (my version, 1.21.0, used manual buggy parsing, newer versions rely on python-dotenv)

Answer 4 · 2020-04-11T20:16:43.000Z

Awesome! I may go the route of reading the .env file specified in env_file but will need to do more research.

Thank you for your feedback and welcome any contributions/additional feedback

Answer 5 · 2020-04-11T20:22:47.000Z

env_file is entirely different from .env, it's not what this issue is about.

.env is used for variable substitution inside the docker-compose.yml file itself . The .env file does not affect the environment variables inside the container. Relevant documentation: this and this

However, env_file is a per-container-configuration for applying environment variables from a specified *.env file inside the container itself. Relevant documentation: this

(Sorry if the bold text sounds rude, it's just a bit confusing so I'm highlighting the important stuff)

Answer 6 · 2020-04-11T21:17:15.000Z

Thanks for the clarification. I see what we have to do now and the fix should be rather quick!

Thank you,
Michael

Answer 7 · 2020-04-13T02:07:28.000Z

@omertuc fix is in. please test and let us know if you have any issues.

Answer 8 · 2020-04-13T17:55:50.000Z

Will look into optimizing handling env file