Using docker secrets or environment variables in the configuration

[retrodaredevil]

Hello. I recently setup Homepage and am going through the documentation.

I was unable to find documentation on how to include a docker secret in my yaml configuration or how to include environment variables. In the case of a docker secret, it would be ideal to be able to include the output of a file such as /run/secrets/file. I wasn't sure if that was a supported feature or not, which is why I'm also wondering what the syntax for including environment variables is.

[retrodaredevil]

I ended up looking at the source code, since I couldn't find anything about environment variable substitution.
To get this working, you may place text like {{HOMEPAGE_VAR_XXX}}, to directly substitute environment variables. If you define an environment variable named {{HOMEPAGE_FILE_XXX}}, the contents of the file at the location specified by the environment variable will be substituted.

I think this should be better documented in the docs.

Here is the code: https://github.com/benphelps/homepage/blob/63d4c6bdf8474299316965f655fc092656f50154/src/utils/config/config.js#L51C22-L51C22

[cesarnr21]

I actually have been trying to get this to work in my setup, but it isn't working for some reason.

• I set up HOMEPAGE_VAR_WEATHER_API="whatever" in a .env file.

• I defined the path in the compose.yaml file like this

  env_file:
        - path: path/.env
  

• and in the widgets.yaml set the api key to apiKey: {{HOMEPAGE_VAR_WEATHER_API}}

I keep getting an API Error anytime I reload homepage

[shamoon]

Open a new discussion and provide detailed info. The bot will probably be able to help.