With useDotenv: true
set in your serverless.yml
file, framework automatically loads environment variables from .env
files with the help of dotenv. In addition, .env
files are excluded from the package when useDotenv
is set in order to avoid uploading sensitive data as a part of package by mistake. Starting with next major version, .env
files will be loaded by default and useDotenv
setting will be ignored.
.env
filesThe framework looks for .env
and .env.{stage}
files in service directory and then tries to load them using dotenv
. If .env.{stage}
is found, .env
will not be loaded. If stage is not explicitly defined, it defaults to dev
.
serverless-dotenv-plugin
There are a few differences between above functionality and serverless-dotenv-plugin:
.env
file (if stage-specific .env
is found, default .env
is not loaded).env.local
, .env.{stage}.local
, and .env.development
files in a similar way to the pluginNODE_ENV
variable and --env
flag when determining stage