Is there any way to use dotenv with Bitbucket Pipelines?

Question

As the title says, is there any way to use dotenv with Bitbucket Pipelines for CI purposes, while still adding the (perhaps multiple) (.stage).env to .gitignore?

I know Pipeline supports environment variables, and that they can be referenced in bitbucket-pipelines.yml, but I can't figure out how to use dotenv files instead, and vary which file to use based on i.e. branch patterns.

For example, I'd like commits to develop to use .test.env variables, while commits to master instead uses the variables from .prod.env.

Perhaps I'm going down the wrong path? Although other websites use examples of multiple .env files, the library authors discourage that approach. I'm using Zeit Now for hosting, so I can't just SSH a .env file onto the server.

Any advice is very welcome :-)

Answer 1

Rename the files inside your develop pipelines:

mv .test.env .env

or in your master pipelines:

mv .prod.env .env