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Description:

envalias 0.4.0

Env Alias

Powerful helper utility to create shell alias commands to easily set collections of environment
variables often with secret values from a variety of data-sources and data-formats.
Enables complex environment setups to be stored in source-control without secret values which makes
it particularly useful in loading secret values into containerized service environments and developer
environments alike.
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
Debug mode output to STDERR
Easy installation using PyPI pip
Plenty of documentation and examples - https://env-alias.readthedocs.io

Installation
pip install env-alias

Usage
This tool is typically invoked via an entry in .bash_aliases with an entry in the form:-
eval $(env-alias env-project-awesome ~/path-to/project-awesome-alias.yml)

This simple one-liner creates a command alias in the name env-project-awesome that subsequently invokes
an alias-generator that gives effect to the .yml configurations(s).
By naming your alias commands with a common prefix such as env- it also becomes possible to leverage
shell tab-completion to quickly find aliases that implement the environment settings for your project,
use-case or other situation.
This 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.
Be sure to review the examples that make the benefits of this arrangement clear.
Version
Check which version of env-alias is installed
env-alias --version

Project

Github - github.com/ndejong/env-alias
PyPI - pypi.python.org/pypi/env-alias
ReadTheDocs - env-alias.readthedocs.io

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