# Is it possible to pass custom environment variables to the docker container?

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**Created:** [September 2, 2020, 12:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-pass-custom-environment-variables-to-the-docker-container/162795 "2020-09-02T12:20:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![fzngagan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fzngagan/32/259349_2.png) [@fzngagan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fzngagan)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-pass-custom-environment-variables-to-the-docker-container/162795/6 "2020-09-02T18:02:03Z")

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So, I was crazy. This works fine. The issue was due to a multiline value. I removed it and the build suceeded. But the question is, how to use multiline values?

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