Scaleway SDKs - environment variables

Reviewed on 03 April 2024 • Published on 15 May 2023

Reserved environment variables

The following standardized Scaleway environment variables are used for the CLI and API.

Variable	Description	Legacy variables
`$SCW_ACCESS_KEY`	The access key of a token	`$SCALEWAY_ACCESS_KEY` (used by Terraform)
`$SCW_SECRET_KEY`	The secret key of a token	`$SCW_TOKEN` (used by the CLI), `$SCALEWAY_TOKEN` (used by Terraform), `$SCALEWAY_ACCESS_KEY` (used by Terraform)
`$SCW_DEFAULT_REGION`	Your default region	`$SCW_REGION` (used by the CLI),`$SCALEWAY_REGION` (used by Terraform)
`$SCW_DEFAULT_ZONE`	Your default Availability Zone	`$SCW_ZONE` (used by the CLI),`$SCALEWAY_ZONE` (used by Terraform)
`$SCW_API_URL`	URL of the API	-
`$SCW_INSECURE`	Set this variable to `true` to enable the insecure mode	`$SCW_TLSVERIFY` (inverse flag used by the CLI)
`$SCW_PROFILE`	Set the configuration profile to use	-
`$SCW_PROJECT_ID`	Your Project ID	`$SCW_DEFAULT_PROJECT_ID`
`$SCW_ORGANIZATION_ID`	Your Organization ID	`$SCW_DEFAULT_ORGANIZATION_ID`, `$SCW_ORGANIZATION` (used by the CLI),`$SCALEWAY_ORGANIZATION` (used by Terraform)

Environment variables priority

When the same environment variable is injected by multiple sources, the Scaleway infrastructure follows a precedence rule to determine the value for that variable.

The order of precedence, from highest to lowest is the following.

Environment variables defined in your command-line environment.
Static variables (i.e. variables set in a Terraform configuration file).
Variables defined in the Scaleway configuration file