What's the maximum length for environment variables?

[ismaelgfk]

What's the maximum length for environment variables?

[StannousBaratheon]

Hi @ismaelgfk

Pipelines doesn't strictly enforce a maximum length for environment variables, however a 400kb limit is enforced by our persistence engine meaning in practice you can create a variable with length roughly between 100,000 and 400,000 characters depending on encoding.

That being said, a variable of this length is unusual so you may want to reconsider if variables is the right solution for what you're trying to achieve. Alternatives include adding required variables/files to your build Docker image or pulling files from an external secure file store.