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Hey,
Does the Pulumi automation API propogate env vars from the shell running the wrapper program to the Pulumi CLI RPC? It seems like it might not?

Is there a way to do this? e.g. create a workspace with the same env as the process creating the workspace?

to give a simple example. If the user sets `AWS_PROFILE`  and them runs main.go which runs Pulumi using the automation API, I want the program to run with that profile

best way I found to do this so far is to get the env vars with `os.Environ()`  and insert them into the local workspace when creating it

That’s the same technique I use; I don’t know if there’s a “better” way of doing it.

Thanks, I can't get it to see the configuration set (in a file) by `gcloud config set` . Do you know of a solution for that?

I don’t know of a solution other than to `os.Exec` the `gcloud` command you need and parse the output, which is a hack at best but might work.

thanks! that's what I implemented :slightly_smiling_face: