# Clarification on Global Environment Variables in 3.1-beta

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/clarification-on-global-environment-variables-in-3-1-beta/74931>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [9 February 2023 09:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/clarification-on-global-environment-variables-in-3-1-beta/74931 "2023-02-09T09:01:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@Shan](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Shan)\
**Post date:** [9 February 2023 09:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/clarification-on-global-environment-variables-in-3-1-beta/74931/1 "2023-02-09T09:01:04Z")

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> [@tada Node-RED 3.1.0-beta.1 released](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-3-1-0-beta-1-released/74644#global-environment-variables-7):
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> tada Surprise! The first beta release of Node-RED 3.1 is now available. This is a long overdue release, but here it is at last. Node-RED 3.x requires at least Node 14.x, but that reaches end-of-life in a couple months. These days you should really be using Node 16 at least or even 18. Here are the highlights for this release. The [Change Log](https://github.com/node-red/node-red/blob/ae776547ce3452048f7814596f571915d3b36453/CHANGELOG.md) has the full list of changes. Note: if any issues are reported against the beta, we'll update this post to list them here. If you hit a problem, pleas…

Based on the Release Notes for `3.1-beta` in terms of using the environment variables with tools like `docker`, if I start a container with `-e SOME_DB_PASS=mypass` will this environment variable be available to me in the flows or nodes?

I generally use such environment variables only to setup the user credentials which are inherently resolved in the `settings.js` file using `process.env`

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**Post date:** [10 April 2023 09:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/clarification-on-global-environment-variables-in-3-1-beta/74931/2 "2023-04-10T09:01:20Z")

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