diff --git a/docs/en/configuration.md b/docs/en/configuration.md
index c6d4d9a..89d9a74 100644
--- a/docs/en/configuration.md
+++ b/docs/en/configuration.md
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ SilverStripe\SearchService\Service\IndexConfiguration:
             summary:
               property: Summary
     content-subsite4:
-      subsite_id: 4
+      subsite_id: 4 # or you can use environment variable such as 'NAME_OF_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE'
       includeClasses:
         Page:
           <<: *page_defaults
diff --git a/src/Interfaces/DataObjectDocumentInterface.php b/src/Interfaces/DataObjectDocumentInterface.php
index 26985f3..f310e4d 100644
--- a/src/Interfaces/DataObjectDocumentInterface.php
+++ b/src/Interfaces/DataObjectDocumentInterface.php
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 use SilverStripe\ORM\DataObject;
 
 /**
- * The contract to indicate that the Elastic Document source its data from Silverstripe DataObject class
+ * The contract to indicate that the Elastic Document sources its data from Silverstripe DataObject class
  */
 interface DataObjectDocumentInterface
 {
diff --git a/src/Service/IndexConfiguration.php b/src/Service/IndexConfiguration.php
index 5d309a6..b80363c 100644
--- a/src/Service/IndexConfiguration.php
+++ b/src/Service/IndexConfiguration.php
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 namespace SilverStripe\SearchService\Service;
 
 use SilverStripe\Core\Config\Configurable;
+use SilverStripe\Core\Environment;
 use SilverStripe\Core\Extensible;
 use SilverStripe\Core\Injector\Injectable;
 use SilverStripe\SearchService\Interfaces\DocumentInterface;
@@ -95,6 +96,11 @@ public function getIndexes(): array
     {
         $indexes = $this->config()->get('indexes');
 
+        // Convert environment variable defined in YML config to its value
+        array_walk($indexes, function (array &$configuration): void {
+            $configuration = $this->environmentVariableToValue($configuration);
+        });
+
         if (!$this->onlyIndexes) {
             return $indexes;
         }
@@ -267,4 +273,26 @@ public function getFieldsForIndex(string $index): array
         return $fields;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * For every configuration item if value is environment variable then convert it to its value
+     */
+    protected function environmentVariableToValue(array $configuration): array
+    {
+        foreach ($configuration as $name => $value) {
+            if (!is_string($value)) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            $environmentValue = Environment::getEnv($value);
+
+            if (!$environmentValue) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            $configuration[$name] = $environmentValue;
+        }
+
+        return $configuration;
+    }
+
 }