One of the things I have to do often at Metabase is reproduce a problem in different versions. With Docker, it& #39;s easy to spin up different versions but configuring them has always been laborious.

Thanks to finally installing the @1Password CLI tool this just got a little easier!

I have one script that configures Metabase - it uses a default set of parameters, but importantly I can tweak the host/port.

So I spin up two different docker images on different ports and run the script twice, just changing the port between runs.

Then I have a second script that can add a database. Now...I had never really finished this script because I didn& #39;t have a good way of not littering my database passwords all over my terminal history.

But finally, today, I installed the @1Password CLI! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙌" title="Raising hands" aria-label="Emoji: Raising hands">

So now, I can just do:

DB_PASSWORD=$(op get item test-database --fields password) MB_PORT=3000 add_database.sh

for each instance and bada bing, bada boom I& #39;m done!

This thread brought to you by a lazy sysadmin.

(Also, I have a nifty Docker image that can execute these scripts in a containerized environment as well, but I haven& #39;t gotten the add_database one wired up yet.)