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Hi, is there an environment variable with which I can pass the `config.yml`or is `--config` CLI argument the only way to do it? Can’t find anything here in the docs.

Hello. You can pass it using any variable by your choice. You can use `OATHKEEPER_CONFIG` for instance

That’s great! Is the value supposed to contain the path to a file or the config itself?

`OATHKEEPER_CONFIG`is not documented on <https://www.ory.sh/docs/oathkeeper/> AFAICT so that’s why I didn’t find it.

`OATHKEEPER_CONFIG` variable is not part of oathkeeper but still you can specify absolute path to the config and run it the following way

```export OATHKEEPER_CONFIG=/etc/config/oathkeeper.conf
oathkeeper serve -c $OATHKEEPER_CONF```

Ah, I see. That’s obviously a solution :smile:

Not what I intended though… My intention of using an env-var for the path was to be able to deploy (or use in docker-compose) the docker container without needing to override the docker `COMMAND`

So if Oathkeeper had a `OATHKEEPER_CONFIG` or `OATHKEEPER_CONFIG_PATH`variable it would be simpler to make a deployment / local dev env with docker-compose