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i am trying to run pulumi actions in my github workflow, and in my pulumi files, i want to access an environment variable that i passed in from github secrets. how can i do so? i can't seem to find any guides or examples on how to do this

You want to reference an environment variable in your Pulumi IaC program? If so, you just use whatever the programming language uses, e.g. in Node `process.env.ENV_VAR_NAME`

However, if you have a secret that is optional, you should instead use Pulumi Config (again, Node shown here):

```const config = new pulumi.Config();
const requiredSecretValue = config.requireSecret("nameOfKey");
// or
const optionalSecretValue = config.getSecret("nameOfKey");```

You can set the value before running `pulumi up` or whatever via this command:

`pulumi config set yourKeyName $GH_SECRET_ENV_VAR_NAME --secret`