Exporting secrets via the environment

by dave-dittrich 6 years ago

macOS ◆ screen-256color ◆ bash 1497 views

In this cast, exporting secrets (with an optional prefix string) is demonstrated. Programs like Hashicorp terraform can set variables from the environment if they start with “TFVAR“. We could run terraform directly, but in this case we run Bash to illustrate this mechanism.

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