My demo site is built with Svelte/Sapper and uses the npm google-spreadsheet to connect to Google Sheets. https://gbps.netlify.app/ The Google Sheets API provides a credentials.json file for authentication. I’ve created a Netlify function that references the credentials JSON file like so: await do…

Also, here’s an explicit example of how to put a private key into variables, to use in the build! I prefer separate variables to trying to handle the \n in the quoted string(s) since that is so hard to handle in the shell. 28 year shell scripting professional here…so I have a ton of baggage …

I would think the env variables route is the way to go. Have you been able to dig deeper into why the build fails? Just checking that the build doesnt rely on the function since the function will run in a different environment and the build wont access it. Only at run time. I would also note that w…

Thanks Aaron, you’ve definitely given me some things to think about. I thought that the Netlify function was being called on build because when I export from Sapper, I can log the data retrieved Sapper’s preload function. I’m still trying to wrap my head around this though! Either way, I’d better ch…

hi there, here is a great guide for using environment variables: [image] [Support Guide] Using environment variables on Netlify correctly Support Guides Last reviewed: August 2023 The preferred way to use environment variables in Netlify is to set them in our environment…

Thanks so much @fool for letting me know why it’s failing! Maybe there’s a reason I shouldn’t do this, but I’m now replacing _ with \n right in my Netlify function. I hope it makes sense to do it that way – since I made the change, my build hasn’t failed. :slightly_smiling_face:

Unfortunately env variables for something like this is not very portable, and doesn’t scale well. :slightly_frowning_face: Some ideas that would address this and potentially a host of other use cases: What about allowing private files to be gitignored and deployed via the Netlify CLI? What about…

I don’t anticipate any of those things to happen any time soon. What makes you think variables are not scalable?

When deploying from a Git repo, is there a way to upload a private key file that's not in your repo

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hi there, here is a great guide for using environment variables:

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When deploying from a Git repo, is there a way to upload a private key file that's not in your repo

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