`.env` file to load in environment variables easily for gateway configs

[sungchun12]

Make it easy to configure gateway configs with environment variables with a .env file to prevent the tedious exercise of doing export PASSWORD=jaiowjfe each time a user opens a new shell session or doesn't want to hard code in a bash config.

Can use this: https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv

Internal slack thread: https://tobikodata.slack.com/archives/C08PZF4PL21/p1747171622029019

[mattiasthalen]

That's one of the main reasons I do my config in Python, so that I can just throw in load_dotenv().

Is this something that would be added where the config is loaded, or even closer to the entrypoint?

[sungchun12]

That's one of the main reasons I do my config in Python, so that I can just throw in load_dotenv().

Is this something that would be added where the config is loaded, or even closer to the entrypoint?

Yes, in the same project root directory of the config: config.yaml, config.py