Environment file (Compose)
Environment file
Compose supports declaring default environment variables in an environment file named .env
placed in the folder docker-compose
command is executed from (current working directory).
Compose expects each line in an env file to be in VAR=VAL
format. Lines beginning with #
(i.e. comments) are ignored, as are blank lines.
Note: Values present in the environment at runtime will always override those defined inside the
.env
file. Similarly, values passed via command-line arguments take precedence as well.
Those environment variables will be used for variable substitution in your Compose file, but can also be used to define the following CLI variables: