Hello, noob here. Is it possible to access environmental variables within conf files? This is related to a much broader question on how to handle conf files within a git repo and inject sensitive secrets into the config files, such as runtime environmental variables. I have tried the ${ENV(AST_PA…

Generally variable substitution is only done on dialplans, although there might be the odd exception that I’m not aware of. That means extensions.conf and extensions.ael,etc. They are done at run time, not at configuration load time

Thank you, appreciate the quick response. I suspected this would be the case. What is the best practice for handling secrets in config files between repo and production? EnvVars would have been the easiest route but that doesn’t appear to be an option, there are alternatives, e.g. using sed to read…

Would the #exec directive help?

You can create an included file like that: #include vars_custom.conf with this content: globals SysToken = wof9Quoi JiraToken = eel7ahkimaeGhi2i Then use ${SysToken} in your dialplan configs. And set to never upload vars_custom.conf to your repo.

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khamlichi.khalil June 28, 2021, 4:33pm 5

You could generate the config filed thru some script using

#exec /var/opt/your_script.py

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