How do I pass environment variables to Docker containers?

Question

I\'m new to Docker, and it\'s unclear how to access an external database from a container. Is the best way to hard-code in the connection string?

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Answer 1

The problem I had was that I was putting the --env-file at the end of the command

docker run -it --rm -p 8080:80 imagename --env-file ./env.list

Fix

docker run --env-file ./env.list -it --rm -p 8080:80 imagename