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Allow inheriting some environment variables

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In many places you call subprocess.run() passing it some hand-crafted environment (passing env=<some dict> to the function). This prevents the sub-process from inherit some important variables. For example we have terraform modules that interact with kubernetes, yet they cannot see the KUBECONFIG environment variable from the parent shell. This can result in various outcomes from authentication failures to talking to the wrong cluster leading to messing up terraform state.

Would you consider adding a way to provide a list of variable sub-processes can inherit ? Thanks.

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Created 3 years ago
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cansjtcommented, Sep 10, 2020

Apparently it is version 7.9.0 of tfwrapper we are using. So the fix above should solve my issue ! Will see that we update tfwrapper. Thank a lot for the prompt answer ! Hopefully that will close the issue. Will keep you informed.

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cansjtcommented, Apr 1, 2021

Yes, sorry ! Don’t have time to investigate this further, so let’s close the issue.

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