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Run Docker in production with environment variables that are secret and cannot be seen on the server
I need to send environment variables to my application running in a container but I understand that it is bad practice that the ".env" file is on the server since the "root" user ...
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How do I add environment variables to a AWS Lightsail Node.js instance?
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I'm dipping my toes into AWS by deploying a simple API built with NestJS. This will be the first app I've deployed to a cloud service. I've already cloned my repository on an AWS Lightsail ...
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Node JS loading secrets on a "pre" task and updating the environment variables for the main task
I have many services written in Node and loading secrets on startup has always been a problem for me.
I believe that when a service starts up, it should have every piece of configuration/secret ready ...
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How can I unset all environment variables at once?
I am trying to unset environment variables in my code in a teardown block. Is there a command to unset all variables at once?
For example
I am setting the following environment variables:
export ...
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Can't connect to a MongoDB server
I'm trying to deploy this Fullstack app to a DigitalOcean droplet:
https://github.com/maismin/stock-portfolio-app-demo
I installed MongoDB like how to documentation said and then I started it and didn'...
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Linux Environment variables in NodeJs .env file
I am currently using the dotenv library in my nodejs project, and reactjs project.
I have a .env file that works perfectly when I have values like the following
PORT=80
API_URL=https://api.com:8080
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Running an .env file and access them from Node
This feels a bit embarrassing since I've been a Linux user for 10+ years. However, I've ran into a problem which I can't understand.
Lets assume I want to expose an environment variable, SECRET, that ...
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How can I export the execution of a command to an upstart script
I have an upstart script that runs a nodejs-app, but Node.js is installed with nvm. I source some variables to upstart from another file, and my script section looks like this:
script
. /etc/default/...
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Changing environment variables of terminal from node.js
I'm working on a simple node.js CLI that provides functionality for (MF) authentication for AWS. This requires on-calling the AWS CLI and updating environment variables in the current terminal (in ...
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How does this example of passing environment variables in linux to node work?
I read and verified that I can pass environment variables to node by doing something like:
MY_ENV_VAR1=/tmp MY_ENV_VAR2=/data node index.js
How on earth does that work? I've only seen arguments to a ...
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Is the equals sign character "=" allowed in the value of an environment value in Linux?
For example, I would like to use the following environment variable name and value in a Linux environment
myDN=OU=MY_OU,DC=MYDC,DC=local
Is the above allowed in a Linux environment?
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Can't access environment variable from node.js in Ubuntu
I created an Ubuntu micro instance on AWS, installed node and everything.
I have some API credentials in my node.js app, that I'd like to store in environment variables. I'm not Linux savy, so I ...
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Is there a way to figure out what environment variables are needed/used by an executable?
I've got a C++ program that will run certain very specific commands as root. The reason this is needed is because another program running under Node.js needs to do things like set system time, set ...
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