The CLI is designed for a variety of applications, ranging from local secret management to CI/CD and production scenarios. The distinguishing factor, however, is the authentication method used.

To use the Infisical CLI in your local development environment, simply run the command below and follow the interactive guide.

infisical login

If you are in a containerized environment such as WSL 2 or Codespaces, run infisical login -i to avoid browser based login

Initialize Infisical for your project

# navigate to your project
cd /path/to/project

# initialize infisical
infisical init

This will create .infisical.json file at the location the command was executed. This file contains your local project settings. It does not contain any sensitive data.

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Inject environment variables

infisical run --env=dev --path=/apps/firefly -- [your application start command]

# example with node (nodemon)
infisical run --env=staging --path=/apps/spotify -- nodemon index.js

# example with flask
infisical run --env=prod --path=/apps/backend -- flask run

# example with spring boot - maven
infisical run --env=dev --path=/apps/ -- ./mvnw spring-boot:run --quiet

View all available options for run command here

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Connect CLI to self hosted Infisical

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History

Your terminal keeps a history with the commands you run. When you create Infisical secrets directly from your terminal, they’ll stay there for a while.

For security and privacy concerns, we recommend you to configure your terminal to ignore those specific Infisical commands.

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