ENV Crypt

Python module for encrypting and decryting .env files.

Getting Started

This module can be installed with pythons setuptools. It is not currently in pypi, so just run setup.py locally:

python setup.py install

Usage

After running the setup.py script, a cli tool called env-crypt is installed. This tool can be used to:

Encrypt the .env file with a password:

>>> env-crypt --env-path $PATH_TO_DOTENV --password $YOUR_PASSWORD encrypt

Decrypt the .env file with a password:

>>> env-crypt --env-path $PATH_TO_DOTENV --password $YOUR_PASSWORD decrypt

Encrypt the .env file with a keyfile:

>>> env-crypt --env-path $PATH_TO_DOTENV --keyfile $PATH_TO_SECRET_FILE encrypt

Decrypt the .env file with a keyfile:

>>> env-crypt --env-path $PATH_TO_DOTENV --keyfile $PATH_TO_SECRET_FILE decrypt

You can update the value of an encrypted .env key without having to decrypt it first:

>>> env-crypt --env-path $PATH_TO_DOTENV --password $YOUR_PASSWORD update --key $KEY_TO_UPDATE --value $NEW_VALUE

You can see what the current values in the .env file are without having to decrypt and re-encrypt the files

>>> env-crypt --env-path $PATH_TO_DOTENV --keyfile $PATH_TO_SECRET_FILE list

Once you have encrypted your env file, you can load it into the python environment by importing the module:

import os
from env_crypt import load_env

load_env('path/to/.env', password='your password',
keyfile='path/to/keyfile')

# Access the env value as normal, it will be decrypted for use
os.environ[key]

Author

Alexander Baker

Contributors

l50