Hi everyone I ve tried searching this channel to no avail I Pants #general

Hi everyone. I've tried searching this channel to ...

acoustic-garden-40182

05/10/2023, 3:14 PM

Hi everyone. I've tried searching this channel to no avail. I have successfully built a Pex file and have it running in a Docker container with

pants run

. Everything works perfectly. I'm able to pass environment variables in with

--docker-run-args="-e MY_VAR=var123"

, and this also works. However, if I do this

--docker-run-args="--env-file .env"

, assuming that the .env file is in the current working directory, I get the following error:

docker: open .env: no such file or directory.

Is loading environment variables from a file supported by Pants in this case? I'm on version 2.16.0rc1.

curved-television-6568

05/10/2023, 3:29 PM

Hi Gary, My guess would be that your

.env

file is not present in the sandbox, meaning there is nothing depending on it to make Pants include it.

curved-television-6568

05/10/2023, 3:30 PM

oh, hmm.. wait,

run

is interactive, so the sandbox argument may be moot here…

curved-television-6568

05/10/2023, 3:32 PM

Is loading environment variables from a file supported by Pants in this case?

To answer this, yes, if you use

scie-pants

(the new Pants launcher binary) you can have a

.env

file to load env vars from in the root of the repo. Otherwise you can have a

.pants.bootstrap

script with

export VAR=value

in it which will work in either launcher version (script or binary)

acoustic-garden-40182

05/10/2023, 4:45 PM

That's brilliant, thanks, I'll move the

.env

file.

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