How to pass environment variable to terraform/tofu globally?

[marverix]

Hi,
I have deployed Atlantis via K8s. Works fine. I have the issue with GitHub provider tho. Because of a bug, for some resources it's required to set env (not tf variable!) GITHUB_OWNER. I know that in Atlantis I can do it via workflow, but it's a bit tedious. Is there a possibility to tell Atlantis to pass the environment variable (again - not TF_VAR_ !) to each terraform/tofu execution?
Thanks!

[dosubot[bot]]

Hey @marverix! I'm here to help you with any bugs, questions, or contributions. Let's get to the bottom of this together.

I found a similar open issue regarding workflow-level env values, but no solution was found in the comments ^[1].

To set environment variables globally in Atlantis for each Terraform execution, you can use pre-workflow hooks. This allows you to define environment variables that will be available to all steps in the workflow. Here's an example configuration:

repos:
  - id: /.*/
    pre_workflow_hooks:
      - run: |
          export GITHUB_OWNER="your_value"
          echo "Environment variable GITHUB_OWNER set"
        description: Setting GITHUB_OWNER environment variable
        shell: bash
        shellArgs: -cv

This setup will ensure that the GITHUB_OWNER environment variable is set for all Terraform executions managed by Atlantis ^[2][3].

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[marverix]

No, this does not work, as I'm using custom workflows.