Is it Possible to Create a Datastore with Environment Variable Names to Simplify Scripts Across Different Systems?

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Hey There All,

Wondering if it is possible to create a datastore with environment variable names, and then call the datastore for particular values (which are the environment variable names), and then use them to call the environment variables?

I have alot of different systems, and would like to reduce the scripts to fire them, by given it a key to get the details from the datastore, and direct it to the environment variables (if that makes sense)

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You should definitely be able to do something like that (IIUC).

The data store is basically a key-value store. Keys are strings, and values can be pretty much “anything” (including the name of another key, ad infinitum).

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As a dummy example, you could have a key key1, which contains the value key2, and a key key2, which contains the value key3, and so on.

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And then you can use any of these keys/values to retrieve env vars as usual (something like process.env[key]), or vice versa.

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awesome, I was thinking of effectively catching a Post or such and then based on the message setting a variable, pulling that from the datastore (as its the key), then using values in the datastore to get enviro variables, instead of having to hard code the variables in.

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just needed to bounce the idea of someone :slightly_smiling_face: thanks for your thoughts, pretty much my thinking :slightly_smiling_face: