nicolas.shNotes from building software by Nicolas Nunge, independent developer and software architect: problems solved, pitfalls and fixes, in French or English.https://nicolas.sh/enDocker Compose eats the dollar signs in your env_filehttps://nicolas.sh/posts/docker-compose-env-file-dollar-signs/https://nicolas.sh/posts/docker-compose-env-file-dollar-signs/A bcrypt hash goes into an env_file and comes out shorter inside the container. Nothing crashes, the right password is simply refused. Here is what Compose does to every $ in that file, and the one line that stops it.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTNicolas Nungedockerdevops