hashicorp/envconsul

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Envconsul is a Go CLI tool that launches a subprocess with environment variables populated from HashiCorp Consul key-value data and Vault secrets. Applications remain unaware of the source, reading plain environment variables, enabling 12-factor-style portable configuration.

Use cases

• inject vault secrets into app environment variables
• launch a subprocess with config from consul kv
• 12-factor app configuration without code changes
• populate env vars from vault at container startup
• run apps with secrets without exposing them in files
• dynamically refresh environment variables from consul

When to choose

• you use HashiCorp Consul and/or Vault for config and secrets
• you want apps to read plain env vars with no SDK changes
• you need cross-platform secret injection with no runtime dependencies

When to avoid

• you don't use Consul or Vault
• you need Kubernetes-native secret mounting instead
• you want a library to embed in-process rather than a subprocess wrapper

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

configuration-management secrets-management cli developer-tools developer-tools security infrastructure-as-code windows cross-platform go hashicorp consul vault environment-variables 12-factor secrets-injection subprocess-launcher devops linux macos docker

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