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I have a shared component that will make a call to GCP. Do I understand correctly that environment variables are not available to shared components? If that’s correct, what is the best practice for managing secrets for them?
That’s right. You should create a prop for it, then whoever is configuring it can set the prop value to process.env.foo.
Or if it’s for the account connection specifically, then using the google_cloud app prop might also be a better way to accomplish what you’re trying to do.
What’s the use case for the env var?
It’s the same as it would be in a step: To make a secret available to that component. The extra friction to define a property and then pass the same environment variable every time that shared component is utilized seems unnecessary.