Feature Request: dynamically set environment variables at deploy-time

[hughhan1]

Description

CONVEX_DEPLOY_KEY does not seem to provide the necessary authorization to run convex env set. There does not seem to be a way to set environment variables when running on non-user machines (e.g. CI machines). This makes it impossible to dynamically set environment variables.

Even if CONVEX_DEPLOY_KEY provides the necessary authorization to run convex env set, there are still race conditions in which a deployment is successful, but the environment variables have not yet been set.

I'm looking for any solution where a non-user machine can run convex deploy with the ability to dynamically configure environment variables. I saw that convex deploy has the --env-file argument, but this seems to provide the convex deploy command with the environment variables to run the deploy, and not the environment variables to mount onto the deployment.

[nipunn1313]

Hi Hugh! (long time!!)

CONVEX_DEPLOY_KEY should work for npx convex env set. You can set the environment variable (should be doable from CI machines).

Doing something like

CONVEX_DEPLOY_KEY={paste key generated from dashboard} npx convex env set {KEY} {VALUE}

Note that the --env-file argument is (confusingly) not about env vars set on your deployment, but rather env vars about configuring the CLI itself.

npx convex env set is about setting env vars in your deployment, for your convex functions to access.

Care to share some code with some example of the issue you are running into?

[hughhan1]

Hi Hugh! (long time!!)

Yes, it's been a super long time! Are you still in San Francisco these days? (Does Github have a messaging feature? I don't think I have your contact.)

Care to share some code with some example of the issue you are running into?

Yes, of course! I'm running the following command through Vercel.

npx convex deploy --cmd 'npm run build' --preview-run init:seed; npx convex env set SITE_URL https://$VERCEL_URL

I already have CONVEX_DEPLOY_KEY set as an environment variable. It seems that npx convex deploy --cmd 'npm run build' --preview-run init:seed is succeeding without a problem, but npx convex env set SITE_URL https://$VERCEL_URL is raising a 500.

✖ Unknown error during authorization: Error: Error fetching POST  https://api.convex.dev/api/deployment/provision_and_authorize 
500 Internal Server Error: InternalServerError: Your request couldn't be completed. Try again later.