also what is the best way to use environment variables for d

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also what is the best way to use environment variables for dagster yaml inputs since i don t want to check postgres credentials into git would you recommend using sed to replace strings during docker builds

alex · Answer

stuff like the postgres user name and password are `StringSource` types which allow either the raw value or `env ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE NAME`

alex · Answer

```postgres username steve password env PG PASSWORD```

Chris Roth · Answer

ahh ok great

prha · Answer

It was added fairly recently but the doc for it is here <https docs dagster io latest api apidocs config dagster StringSource>

Michael Lynton · Answer

I just wanted to share that I got this `StringSource` working in a new resource I was testing out I got it to work with the plain text value in playground or with the environment variable name in playground Super cool Thank you