Problem in Enviromental Variables

I have a lot of enivormental variables that I need to push to heroku. I have stored all these variables in an encrypted .env.gpg file which I am later decrypting in one of the steps and put it in the folder where the heroku action will take place. I need to pass this decrypted .env file to heroku. How can I do this?

name: Frontend Deploy

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - autodeploy

jobs:
  deploytoheroku:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Decrypt frontend.env
        run: ./.github/scripts/frontend_decrypt.sh
      - uses: akhileshns/heroku-deploy@v3.4.6
        with:
          heroku_api_key: ${{secrets.NEW_HEROKU_API_KEY}}
          heroku_app_name: "myapp"
          heroku_email: "[e-mail]"
          branch: autodeploy
          appdir: frontend
      - run: echo "Deployed"

[AkhileshNS]

Hey @uinstinct, I’ve added the feature to pull env variables from a .env file. Please check the updated environmental variables part of the readme file here on how to do this.

Do let me know if this solves your issue and if it does, please close the issue

[AkhileshNS]

No the Action won’t add and commit any changes before pushing it (Although I have been considering adding that since many of the issues coming up have been related to changes made before deployment not being recognized).

But you can just do that yourself by adding a run command to your workflow file before the deploy action that looks like this

run: git config user.name "USERNAME" && git config user.email "EMAIL" && git add -A && git commit -m "Added env file"

If you’re worried that the env file is in your .gitignore file then you won’t need to commit it at all and the action will still be able to read the file since it’s generated into the filesystem (once I add the feature)