Multiple environment variables

[random sphinx]

Hi team, what is the recommended way to pass the multiple environment variables? e.g. I would like to have access to all the GitLab predefined env variables (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/variables/predefined_variables.html) when running inside a GitLab CI/CD pipeline

[bronze stratus]

👋 there's two ways you can do this:

1. Pass the env vars as an argument string or []string like dagger call myfunc --envs $(env) < this is just an example, you'd need to adapt the subshell as needed

2. Dump the env vars into a file and pass that file over like:

env > .env && dagger call myfunc --envs .env

[civic rover]

I want to offer up option 3 🙂

export -p > env_vars.sh - this will dump your env with export prefixed

then load in and source the file, here is a one liner example

dagger core container from --address "alpine" with-file --path "env_vars.sh" --source env_vars.sh with-exec --args "sh,-c,source env_vars.sh && env" stdout

Heres an example of this working in gitlab https://github.com/levlaz/snippetbox/blob/export/.gitlab-ci.yml