Guides

Hand DotEnv setup to your AI coding agent: copy one prompt (or give it a URL) and it wires DotEnv into your project — without ever seeing a live secret.

Install the dotEnv CLI, authenticate, and connect your organization in under five minutes.

Set up your first project, target, and environment and learn the core concepts of dotEnv Cloud.

Push, pull, and organize your secrets across the project, target, and environment hierarchy.

Inject secrets into your GitHub Actions workflows with the dotEnv CLI and an organization API key.

Provide environment variables to Docker containers at build and runtime using the dotEnv CLI.

Materialize secrets into Kubernetes using the dotEnv CLI in an init container or CI step.

Use the dotEnv CLI to deliver secrets to AWS compute such as ECS, Lambda, and EC2.

Pull secrets into Azure Pipelines with the dotEnv CLI and a scoped organization API key.

Wire the dotEnv CLI into GitLab CI/CD pipelines for secure, on-demand secret delivery.

Understand the system roles in dotEnv Cloud and assign the right permissions to your team.

Learn how secrets cascade through the project, target, and environment hierarchy.

Reference other variables with ${VAR} interpolation and resolve them on pull.

Compare server-managed and client-managed encryption and rotate keys safely.

Track who changed what and when with the dotEnv Cloud audit log.

Best practices for using scoped API keys and client-side encryption in automated pipelines.