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Loads container environment variables from one or more files.

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Section: Environment Variables and Env Files

Load variables from env file

yaml
yaml
services:
  api:
    image: myapi:latest
    env_file:
      - .env
      - .env.local
Explanation

Good for keeping service config out of the main YAML.

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