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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The variable is already in the environment, it just doesn’t have a default because it’s required for each container

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can reference envs from the host in docker compose, so code it in instead of manually passing tribal knowledge in: https://stackoverflow.com/a/73826410

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yep, you can also set defaults, required, alternates, etc

This discussion did help me realize that my problem was that I forgot an !override on one of my service’s options. Now it’s just merging the two compose files and setting the profile, thanks for that!