How to use credentials vars for sources/destinations databases and airbyte itself from a .env file with the airbyte terraform provider? the .env is placed two folders above from inside terraform folder (../../.env)

To use credentials variables from a

.env

file with the Airbyte Terraform provider, you can follow these steps: 1. Create a

.env

file two folders above your Terraform folder with the necessary credentials. 2. In your Terraform configuration directory, you can source the environment variables from the

.env

file using the following command:

set -o allexport && source ../../.env && set +o allexport

This command will load the environment variables from your

.env

file into your shell session. 3. In your Terraform files (like

<http://variables.tf|variables.tf>

), you can then reference these environment variables using the

TF_VAR_

prefix. For example, if you have a variable named

DB_PASSWORD

in your

.env

file, you can reference it in Terraform as

TF_VAR_DB_PASSWORD

. 4. Make sure to run the sourcing command before executing any Terraform commands. Remember to re-run the sourcing command if you make any changes to the

.env

file. This approach allows you to keep your sensitive credentials separate from your Terraform configuration files while still being able to use them in your Airbyte resource definitions. [End-to-end RAG using Airbyte's Terraform, dbt, Notion, BigQuery and Pinecone](https://airbyte.com/tutorials/end-to-end-rag-using-airbytes-terraform-dbt-notion-bigquery-and-pinecone) provides an example of this approach in the "Adding Configuration Values" section.