tddschn/envchain-shellenv

envchain-shellenv - prints export statements for your secrets in the keychain

envchain shellenv

Injecting secrets from envchain / keychain into your shell as environment variables, in batch.

envchain-shellenv - prints export statements for your secrets in the keychain

so that you can do eval "$(envchain-shellenv)".

Use with envchain for maximum convenience.

• envchain shellenv
  • Quick Start
  • Installation
    • Prerequisites
    • pipx
    • pip
  • Usage:
  • Example
    • Example config file
  • Develop

Quick Start

# install envchain first, and add your secrets to your keychain app via envchain
# for macOS with Homebrew, run `brew install envchain'.
# see https://github.com/sorah/envchain for more details.

# install envchain-shellenv
pipx install envchain-shellenv || pip install envchain-shellenv

# creates an example config at ~/.config/envchain-shellenv/keychain.ini
envchain-shellenv --create-example-config
# edit config file with your favorite editor
vim ~/.config/envchain-shellenv/keychain.ini

# export your envchain secrets in the current shell
eval "$(envchain-shellenv)"
# optionally add this line to your shell startup file

Installation

Prerequisites

• Required:
  • envchain
• Optional:

  • keyring

    keyring is installed by default if you install envchain-shellenv with pipx.

    To use keyring when installing with pip, do pip install 'envchain-shellenv[keyring]'.

pipx

This is the recommended installation method.

$ pipx install envchain-shellenv

pip

$ pip install envchain-shellenv

Usage:

envchain-shellenv prints export statements for your secrets in the keychain,

when you need your secrets in your shell env, just do eval "$(envchain-shellenv)".

$ eesh -h # `eesh' is just an alias for `envchain-shellenv', you can use either.

usage: envchain-shellenv [-h] [-c CONFIG] [--create-example-config] [-u {envchain,keyring}] [--version]

envchain shellenv - prints export statements for your secrets in the keychain

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c CONFIG, --config CONFIG
                        config file (default: /Users/tscp/.config/envchain-shellenv/keychain.ini)
  --create-example-config
                        create example config file (default: False)
  -u {envchain,keyring}, --use {envchain,keyring}
                        What to use to extract secrets (default: envchain)
  --version, -V         show program's version number and exit

Created by Teddy Xinyuan Chen || Homepage: https://github.com/tddschn/envchain-shellenv

Example

Example config file

test:
  TEST: TEST_SEC
  MULTILINE:
aws: # the envchain namespace
  AWS_SECRET_KEY:
  AWS_ROOT_PW: envchain-aws-root-pw
  # sets AWS_ROOT_PW env var to envchain-aws-root-pw in the aws namespace of envchain
no-item:
  # this will be skipped

Develop

$ git clone https://github.com/tddschn/envchain-shellenv.git
$ cd envchain-shellenv
$ poetry install