.env.sample

In continuous integration, you might use a .env.sample to generate a test environment with placeholder values or dummy secrets.

Don’t use real secrets. Instead:

In the world of software development, few things cause as many production outages, onboarding headaches, and subtle bugs as misconfigured environment variables. The humble .env.sample file (sometimes called .env.example) is a small but powerful convention that solves this problem. This article explores why it exists, how to write one effectively, and how it fits into a modern development workflow. .env.sample