How to pass variables from shell env?

[avoidik]

Hello,

Let's imagine I have an environment variable, which was created before I run gitlab-ci-local (for instance, exported via bash profile or direnv), something like:

export MY_SENSITIVE_VARIABLE='5uper5ecret'

I was trying to naively define it in the variables.yaml file as follows:

---
global:
  MY_SENSITIVE_VARIABLE: "$MY_SENSITIVE_VARIABLE"
  MY_OTHER_VARIABLE: "$MY_SENSITIVE_VARIABLE"

However both of these variables have appeared empty.

I would like to understand what options gitlab-ci-local has to be able to pass this variable into the execution context? without redefining it over and over in the variables.yaml files

cheers

[firecow]

You have to pass it like so gitlab-ci-local --variable MY_SENSITIVE_VARIABLE=${MY_SENSITIVE_VARIABLE}

You could add a feature request under issue, that suggests a syntax in gitlab-ci-local variable.yml's that makes them able to auto-fetch values from the terminal env.

---
global:
  MY_SENSITIVE_VARIABLE: "{{ fromTerminalEnv('MY_SENSITIVE_VARIABLE') }} "

Or something like that 😄