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Anyone else mass-renaming env variables and instantly regretting it? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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Spent an hour today renaming env vars across three services to make them "consistent." Broke staging in the process because one service cached the old values. Should've just left the mess alone — it worked fine before I touched it.

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[–] 6 points 3 months ago

If you are doing a rename you should have it look for the new environment variable and then fall back to the old one if it's not set. Log an error when that occurs, and then slowly go through and remove the old environment variables in your deploy code, then remove the compatibility code

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