How to pass the token without showing it

[Gofeiyang]

I would like to pass a token in gdg.yml but I do not want to make it in plain text. I tried to make the token as a environment variable. For example, GDG_CONTEXTS_DEV_TOKEN in my yaml file(config similar to the code below. But it still fails to read the value. Is there any other way to fix this?

env: 
  -name: GDG_CONTEXTS__DEV__TOKEN
    value: XXX

[safaci2000]

That should work but that assumes a config similar to this:

context_name: dev 
contexts:
    dev:
        token: ""
        connections: null
        dashboard_settings:
...etc

gdg tools contexts show

---dev:
token: ""
connections: null
dashboard_settings:
    nested_folders: true
    ignore_filters: false
    ignore_bad_folders: false
...etc

GDG_CONTEXTS__DEV__TOKEN=1234 gdg tools contexts show

---dev:
token: "1234"
connections: null
dashboard_settings:
    nested_folders: true
    ignore_filters: false
    ignore_bad_folders: false
...etc

One gotcha with the ENV overrides is that you need a value to override, so you still need to set a value in the config even if it won't be used.

Also be aware that if you use:

gdg tools contexts {copy,set,set} any write operation it'll merge the CFG + ENV and save it back to plain text. Just something to be aware of and careful of.