GitHub Action Global Environment

Register global evironment from text file.

Pre-requisites

1. Create text file (e.g. secrets.txt) that contains multiple line of key=value
2. Base 64 encode file content
3. Add encoded value as github secrets call it GLOBAL_ENV or whatever name you feel right

Usage

Create dummy filee.g env.tmp and add your environment variables in key=value format.

VAR1=value
VAR2=value
PASSWORD=::add-mask::secret

Save and encode the content using cat env.tmp | base64 -w 0 then encoded text and put it in your GitHub secrets.

Example step, loading environment variables from GLOBAL_ENV secrets.

- uses: webjet/action-env-loader@v1
  with:
    config: ${{ secrets.GLOBAL_ENV }}

Security Risk

By default ENV will output to log. If you don't want to environment value output you can add ::add-mask:: in front of the value e.g. PASSWORD=::add-mask::$up3rCr3t