Top 23 Go environment-variable Projects

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1. godotenv

   1 20 9,203 3.7 Go

   A Go port of Ruby's dotenv library (Loads environment variables from .env files)

   

   Project mention: Building a Google Drive Downloader in Golang (Part 1) | dev.to | 2024-09-29

   Create a .env file in root or handle environment variables however you like, we'll use joho/godotenv package.

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3. env

   2 11 5,405 7.3 Go

   A simple, zero-dependencies library to parse environment variables into structs

   

4. cleanenv

   3 2 1,825 4.2 Go

   ✨Clean and minimalistic environment configuration reader for Golang

   

5. envsubst

   4 2 815 0.5 Go

   Environment variables substitution for Go

   

6. go-env

   5 1 625 5.0 Go

   a golang library to manage environment variables

   

7. aconfig

   6 2 586 4.3 Go

   Simple, useful and opinionated config loader.

   

8. fig

   7 0 380 4.9 Go

   A minimalist Go configuration library (by kkyr)

   

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10. golobby-config

    8 0 363 0.0 Go

    A lightweight yet powerful configuration manager for the Go programming language (by golobby)

    

11. konf

    9 2 317 9.6 Go

    The simplest config loader for Go that reads/watches from file, env, flag and clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP). (by nil-go)

    

12. gotenv

    10 0 303 4.0 Go

    Load environment variables from `.env` or `io.Reader` in Go.

    

13. envdecode

    11 1 230 0.0 Go

    Go package for populating structs from environment variables using struct tags

    

14. joshbetz/config

    12 0 215 0.0 Go

    🛠 A configuration library for Go that parses environment variables, JSON files, and reloads automatically on SIGHUP. (by joshbetz)

    

15. zenv

    13 3 144 4.1 Go

    Enhanced env command to set environment variable by various method

    

16. tfenv

    14 1 130 0.0 Go

    Transform environment variables for use with Terraform (e.g. `HOSTNAME` ⇨ `TF_VAR_hostname`) (by cloudposse-archives)

    

17. EpicEnv

    15 3 122 7.9 Go

    An epic environment manager to fix local environment variable management among git collaborators. Like python virtual envs, but for environment variables.

    

    Project mention: EpicEnv: Sharing secrets among collaborators with Git | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-04

18. ess

    16 4 87 8.3 Go

    ess (env-sample-sync): automatically and safely synchronize env.sample files with .env

    

    Project mention: Ask HN: How do you share and sync .env files and secrets with your team | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-08

    I use `ess` (env sample sync) to sync my `.env` with `env.sample`: https://github.com/acaloiaro/ess

19. hocon

    17 0 84 3.4 Go

    go implementation of lightbend's HOCON configuration library https://github.com/lightbend/config

    

20. ini

    18 1 82 3.9 Go

    📝 Go INI config management. support multi file load, data override merge. parse ENV variable, parse variable reference. Dotenv file parse and loader. INI配置读取管理，支持多文件加载，数据覆盖合并, 解析ENV变量, 解析变量引用。DotEnv 解析加载 (by gookit)

    

21. env

    19 3 70 7.1 Go

    🔍 Load environment variables into a config struct (by go-simpler)

    

22. config

    20 3 58 4.0 Go

    Declarative configuration for Go (by num30)

    

23. env-vault

    21 3 43 5.5 Go

    Launch a program with environment variables populated from an encrypted file

    

24. Genv

    22 0 42 4.4 Go

    Genv is a library for Go (golang) that makes it easy to read and use environment variables in your projects. It also allows environment variables to be loaded from the .env file. (by sakirsensoy)

    

25. enflag

    23 1 34 7.2 Go

    Container-focused Golang config: unify Env & Flag parsing in one call with minimal code and zero dependencies.

    

    Project mention: Show HN: Container-focused, generics based Go configuration | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-15

26. SaaSHub

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