Package godotenv is a go port of the ruby dotenv library (https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv) Examples/readme can be found on the github page at https://github.com/joho/godotenv The TL;DR is that you make a .env file that looks something like and then in your go code you can call and all the env vars declared in .env will be available through os.Getenv("SOME_ENV_VAR")