how to load environment variables from a secrets manager ?

[Geczy]

currently i always have to do:

doppler run -- just <command>

i would like to just do:

just <command>

and somewhere in the justfile it will load the doppler variables, how can i do this?

https://github.com/dotabod/backend/blob/master/justfile

related: https://github.com/casey/just/issues/945#issuecomment-1126410263

[runeimp]

You should be able to setup your command in question in a hidden recipe and have a public recipe call it with the integration environment

# Public Integration Recipe
command:
	doppler run -- just _command

# Hidden Actual Recipe
_command:
	# all the code...

[cortopy]

unfortunately that doesn't work me.

just command gives me Doppler Error: Invalid Auth token. However if I type doppler run -- just _command in the terminal it works fine

[casey]

I wish we had a general solution for these kinds of thing. This is an instance of the more general problem that you cannot run a command which exports variables, and then have those variables exported to your just recipes.

In this case, can you have doppler export secrets to a .env file, which just then loads?

[swasher]

Interested in native solution too.

For now I use following trick around (in Just file):

DBURL_STAGE := "$(shell doppler secrets -p <PROJECT> -c <ENVIRONMENT> get <SECRET> --plain)"

and load all needed secrets same way.

Then in some target:

deploy:
    echo "{{DBURL_STAGE}}"

Not very comfortable, but very flexible. I can access few environment ar once.