How do I connect services to share variables between services?
macdonjo
PROOP

a year ago

Each of my projects have about 5 services each.

I constantly find myself copying/pasting dozens of variables between services.

Surely there has to be a way to connect services and automatically share env vars but it isnt clear where or how. Cant find any documentation relating to this.

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Railway
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a year ago

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You can reference a variable within a service via the dropdown so you don't have to explicitly copy them, would this help in the meantime?

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angelo-railway

You can reference a variable within a service via the dropdown so you don't have to explicitly copy them, would this help in the meantime?![](https://station-server.railway.com/attachments/att_01k2x61sx1fzx9x30dmb1cqy7s)

macdonjo
PROOP

a year ago

10 vars x 5 services x 10 projects is still doing this 500 times. It's what I've been doing, just is so slow - like there has to be a better way.

Claude has been telling me there's a better way but I can't see it.

1. Click on the "celery-beat" service

2. Go to "Settings" tab

3. Scroll down to "Service Connections" or "Connected Services"

4. Click "Connect" or "+" button

5. Select "Redis" from the list → this auto-adds REDIS_URL

6. Click "Connect" again

7. Select "Postgres" from the list → this auto-adds DATABASE_URL


Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway 11 months ago


Did you look at Shared Variables? If this doesn't help, could you please expand on your use case?


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10 months ago

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