Act: Allow loading secrets from a .env file

[patoroco]

Hi,

currently act supports passing the secrets using the shell in two ways:

act -s SECRET=value

or

act -s SECRET

In the second option, if the SECRET environment variable exists, it will take that value, if not, it will prompt the user each time.

It would be really nice load these values directly from a .env file, what do you suggest?

[MAHDTech]

You can try this, works for both secrets and standard environment variables.

• Create a file to store the environment variable secrets

vim ~/.config/act.vault

# Example secret
MY_SECRET=12345

• Then run act and load the files with the variables

act \
    --env-file "${HOME}/.config/act.env" \
    --secret-file "${HOME}/.config/act.vault"

👍

[cplee]

thanks @MAHDTech!

@patoroco - can we close this?

[patoroco]

Oh, actually the @MAHDTech's explanation is not a workaround, it's just what I was looking for! Thanks @MAHDTech!

BTW, the only reference that I've found related to that is this file: https://github.com/nektos/act/blob/2f395475b0ac4f5c0fb3d7c8b97a23d9214ea77b/pkg/runner/testdata/secrets/.actrc#L2

Maybe we could add a small mention to it in the README, what do you think?

[patoroco]

thanks @MAHDTech!

@patoroco - can we close this?

Done! Thanks