use django-env

[fopina]

django-environ provides a clean interface to interact and cast settings from os.environ, allowing those to be replaced with a local .env file.

It also supports (my main reason to introduce it) X_FILE docker-like syntax, that will populate the enviornment variable X with the content of the file specified in X_FILE

Such as:

environment:
  PGPASSWORD_FILE: /run/secrets/pgpassword

[yogeshojha]

oh wow, I wasn't aware of this!

Thank you for submitting MR @fopina

I am reviewing this.

[yogeshojha]

@fopina is this going to affect any of the existing installations? For those who already have environment variables set, this change will be a breaking change?

[fopina]

Hi @yogeshojha , it should not be. All variables remain with same names, same defaults and mapped to the same settings.

The only small change is that it's loading variables from .env file by itself, instead of only relying on docker-compose to export them as actual environment variables, but that should have no impact - even if there is any difference between .env and actual environment variable, the actual env takes precedence in django-environ: default < env_from_file < env_for_real