Running commands with environment variables

The Pulumi ESC CLI includes a run command that allows you to run commands with Pulumi ESC managed environment variables, without exporting them to your shell.

You can run esc run using an environment:

$ esc run <environment-name> <command>

For example, to list your S3 buckets with the AWS CLI using environment variables from the myorg/test environment:

$ esc run myorg/test aws s3 ls
2023-10-10 16:09:19 my-s3-bucket

If you need to pass one or more flags to the command, prefix the command with --:

$ esc run myorg/test -- aws s3 ls s3://my-s3-bucket --recursive --summarize
...
Total Objects: 5087
   Total Size: 2419123156

For additional options and details, see esc run --help.