dotenvx

dotenvx is a security-focused developer-tools publisher that emerged from the same team behind the ubiquitous dotenv libraries, extending the simple “key=value” concept into a cross-platform secrets manager for modern CI/CD pipelines. Its namesake command-line utility encrypts, decrypts, injects, and audits environment variables at run-time, replacing scattered .env files with a single encrypted .env.vault that can safely travel with the repository. Typical use cases include injecting API keys into containerized microservices, rotating database credentials across staging and production, and letting open-source contributors spin up local stacks without ever seeing real secrets. The engine supports every major language runtime—Node, Python, Ruby, Go, PHP, Rust—and integrates natively with Docker, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Heroku, Vercel, and AWS Lambda, so encrypted variables are decrypted on the fly only inside the target process. Additional sub-commands handle templating, variable inheritance between environments, real-time leakage scanning, and automatic backups to cloud storage, giving security teams an audit trail while developers keep the familiar “just works” workflow. All dotenvx releases are available free of charge on get.nero.com, delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always pulling the latest version and allowing batch installation alongside other utilities.