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Work · August 31, 2014

Handy vagrant plugin that lets you use environment variables from .env

At OvrClk, we use Vagrant to develop and test our chef cookbooks and it has become an integral part of our workflow.

Handy vagrant plugin that lets you use environment variables from .env launched on August 31, 2014 with 5 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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What it does

At OvrClk , we use Vagrant to develop and test our chef cookbooks and it has become an integral part of our workflow. We also prefer checking in our knife config files in the SCM to reduce friction in setting up chef on our team members’ and clients’ workstations. As a general rule, anything that is likely to change between development workstations–such as credentials for external services–we extract from the code into environment variables. We wrote Vagrant ENV plugin to help us do that with ease. It lets you place environment variables in a .env , which are then made available to the Vagrantfile via ENV. We built this plugin using dotenv , which can be accessed from any ruby file. A…from gregosuri.com

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