BETTER_AUTH_SECRET in ci?

I had a quick question about how better auth pulls environment variables. I am using gitlab ci and better-auth cannot find the BETTER_AUTH_SECRET secret. Has anybody run into this issue. I have other environment variables that are confirmed to be working for both database connections and cms connections.

Solution

I figured it out. It was an issue with how I was doing environment variables in gitlab. Very complex for no reason. Thank you for the information though!