Inject Infisical secrets into a CI job or process non-interactively with the Infisical CLI and a machine identity
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Documented steps
Install the Infisical CLI into the CI runner or container image.
Create or reuse a Machine Identity with Universal Auth, added to the target project with an appropriate project role.
Authenticate non-interactively and capture the token: export INFISICAL_TOKEN=$(infisical login --method=universal-auth --client-id=<CLIENT_ID> --client-secret=<CLIENT_SECRET> --silent --plain)
Store CLIENT_ID and CLIENT_SECRET in the CI provider's encrypted secret store, never in the pipeline file.
Run the process with secrets injected as environment variables: infisical run --projectId <PROJECT_ID> --env prod -- npm run start. The CLI reads INFISICAL_TOKEN from the environment.
For tools that need a file, export instead: infisical export --format=dotenv-export > .env (or --format=yaml), then consume and delete it.
For EU cloud or self-hosted, set the host explicitly - export INFISICAL_DOMAIN='https://eu.infisical.com', or pass --domain=<URL>, or add a domain field to .infisical.json.
In Docker-based CI, pass the token at runtime (docker run --env INFISICAL_TOKEN=$INFISICAL_TOKEN <image>) rather than baking it into the image.
Confirm the process sees the expected variables before running build/deploy steps, and make sure CI masks INFISICAL_TOKEN, CLIENT_ID and CLIENT_SECRET in logs.
Official docs (verified 2026-07-29): https://infisical.com/docs/cli/usage | https://infisical.com/docs/documentation/platform/identities/universal-auth
Known gotchas
The CLI defaults to Infisical US Cloud. Without INFISICAL_DOMAIN (or --domain / .infisical.json), EU and self-hosted users silently authenticate against the wrong instance.
Access tokens are bounded by the identity's configured TTL/Max TTL, so long-lived runners should re-authenticate per job instead of caching a token indefinitely.
infisical export writes plaintext secrets to disk. Delete the file after use and keep it out of build caches and uploaded artifacts.
Service tokens are deprecated in favor of machine identities; older --token/service-token examples and the interactive browser login are not appropriate for non-interactive CI.
infisical run passes decrypted values into the child process environment, so any process that dumps its environment on error will leak them into CI logs.
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