Inject Doppler secrets into a process with doppler run, using non-interactive Service Token auth for CI
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Documented steps
Install the Doppler CLI. For local development run doppler login then doppler setup to bind the current directory to a project/config.
Run a process with secrets injected as environment variables: doppler run -- node server.js. The app reads them normally (process.env / os.getenv).
For multiple shell commands in one invocation use: doppler run --command="./configure && ./process-jobs; ./cleanup"
For CI/production, skip doppler login and doppler setup entirely and authenticate with a project+config-scoped Service Token instead.
Supply the token by any one of three documented methods: echo 'dp.st.prd.xxxx' | doppler configure set token --scope /, or set the DOPPLER_TOKEN environment variable, or pass doppler run --token dp.st.prd.xxxx -- <command>.
Because a Service Token already encodes project+config, doppler run in CI needs no interactive setup step.
For very short-lived jobs, mint an ephemeral token first: doppler configs tokens create ci-run --max-age 1m -p PROJECT -c CONFIG, and feed it to DOPPLER_TOKEN.
Single-quote variable references inside --command strings (doppler run --command='echo $SECRET_NAME') so the outer shell does not expand them before Doppler substitutes values.
Official docs (verified 2026-07-29): https://docs.doppler.com/docs/cli | https://docs.doppler.com/docs/service-tokens
Known gotchas
Using personal doppler login credentials in CI grants broad account access; Doppler documents Service Tokens as the CI/CD method specifically to limit blast radius.
configure set token, DOPPLER_TOKEN and --token are three valid ways to pass credentials - mixing them in one job makes it ambiguous which token is active.
Ephemeral tokens created with --max-age self-delete at expiry, so a retried or delayed later pipeline stage reusing the same value will fail auth.
doppler run injects plaintext values into the child process environment; ensure the CI platform masks them and that the process does not dump its own env to logs.
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