Env-Alias is a helper utility to create shell alias commands that easily set collections of environment variables often with secret values from a variety of data-sources and data-formats.
Typically this tool is invoked via an entry in .bash_aliases with an entry in the form
eval $(env-alias my-alias-name ~/path-to/my-alias-name-config-file.yml)
Where this example would establish a shell alias command for the alias my-alias-name that then invokes the env-alias-generator with configuration from ~/path-to/my-alias-name-config-file.yml
That all might sound quirky, however the mechanism is enormously useful in working with large sets of environment variables from encrypted or otherwise secured data-sources which means an environment configuration can be easily committed to source control without the secret values.
Features
- Data sources: local-file, http-remote, exec-stdout or directly-set
- Source file formats:
text,ini,json,yaml - Select using jq-style selectors, xpath selectors or line-numbers
- Reference other env values within configuration
- Content-Type detection for http-remote data-sources to automatically assign appropriate parser
- Run exec helper commands without content assignment for creating setups
- Logs output to STDERR
- Easy installation using PyPI
pip - Plenty of documentation and examples - https://env-alias.readthedocs.io
Install
pip install [--upgrade] env-alias
Documentation
Read the documentation, there really is a lot of awesome things to do with env-alias