dotenv action

It reads the .env file from the root of this repo and provides environment variables to build steps.

Build history

Inputs

path

Override the path to the .env file. Default is .env in the repository root.

log-variables

Log variables after reading from the .env file.

mask-variables

Mask values after reading from the .env file.

ensure-exists

Fail the action when .env file is not found at path. Default is true.

export-variables

Export values as environment variables in addition to storing them in the output after reading from the .env file.

export-variables-prefix

Prefix to prepend to each environment variable name when export-variables is set to true.

keys-case

Transform keys cases to lower, upper or keep as it is with bypass.

Outputs

generic

Whatever is present in the .env file will be converted into an output variable.

E.g. you have the following .env:

VERSION=1.0
AUTHOR=Mickey Mouse

Then you will have outputs:

{
    version: "1.0"
    author: "Mickey Mouse"
}

Example usage

id: dotenv
uses: ./.github/actions/dotenv-action

Then later you can refer to the alpine version like this ${{ steps.dotenv.outputs.version }}