Accessing .Env when using —context argument

[assayire]

Is it possible to access the .Env (say .Env.USER) when adding variables to root context?

For example:

# Assume name=Alice
gomplate \
  --context .=/var/tmp/context.yml \
  -i '{{ .name }} - {{ .Env.USER }}’

With the above setup, I am getting the following error:

Alice - 13:15:22 ERR  error="failed to render template <arg>: template: <arg>:1:24: executing \"<arg>\" at <.Env.USER>: map has no entry for key \"Env\""

[hairyhenderson]

No, because using . as the context name overrides the root context.

However, instead of using .Env you can use env.Getenv to (mostly) the same effect.

[assayire]

That’s awesome. Thanks.