Supabase CLI on GitHub Actions, how to manage envs?

[larswww]

I want to run my E2E tests also on CI, how am I supposed to set that up with supabase? What I have attempted is to recreate my local setup, so that my playwright container connects to supabase cli running locally. I'm having trouble getting that to run due to the envs created after setup. Am i supposed to have another supabase project for this? My pipeline below..

 e2e:
    name: Playwright E2E
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v2

      - name: Install Supabase CLI
        uses: supabase/setup-cli@v1
        with:
          version: latest

      - name: Fix host.docker.internal on Linux
        run: echo "127.0.0.1 host.docker.internal" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

      - name: Start Supabase in background
        run: |
          supabase start --debug &
          # Poll if the containers are ready.
          # "supabase_db_react-router-supa-stack container is not ready: starting"
          # implies we have to wait. Typically, you can wait for port 54321 or check "supabase status".
          # Example approach:
          for i in {1..30}; do
            STATUS_JSON=$(supabase status --output json 2>/dev/null || echo "")
            if echo "$STATUS_JSON" | grep '"status":"running"' >/dev/null; then
              echo "Supabase is fully running"
              break
            fi
            echo "Waiting for supabase containers to be ready..."
            sleep 5
          done

      - name: Capture Local Supabase Info
        run: |
          # Even after status:"running", give a short delay so the anon key is definitely available
          sleep 5

          SUPABASE_URL="http://127.0.0.1:54321"
          # We parse the status JSON again (with a fallback if not found).
          STATUS_JSON=$(supabase status --output json 2>/dev/null || echo "")
          SUPABASE_ANON_KEY=$(echo "$STATUS_JSON" | jq -r '.api.anon_key // ""')

          if [ -z "$SUPABASE_ANON_KEY" ]; then
            echo "WARN: Could not retrieve anon key. Using local dev key as fallback."
            SUPABASE_ANON_KEY="eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJzdXBhYmFzZS1kZW1vIiwicm9sZSI6ImFub24iLCJleHAiOjE5ODM4MTI5OTZ9.CRXP1A7WOeoJeXxjNni43kdQwgnWNReilDMblYTn_I0"
          fi

          echo "SUPABASE_URL=$SUPABASE_URL" >> $GITHUB_ENV
          echo "SUPABASE_ANON_KEY=$SUPABASE_ANON_KEY" >> $GITHUB_ENV

      - name: Build Playwright image
        run: docker build -f Dockerfile.playwright -t playwright-tests .

      - name: Run Playwright e2e
        run: |
          docker run --rm \
            -e SUPABASE_URL="${SUPABASE_URL}" \
            -e SUPABASE_ANON_KEY="${SUPABASE_ANON_KEY}" \
            -e BASE_URL="http://localhost:3000" \
            playwright-tests

[Tgenz1213]

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