Scaleway SDKs - environment variables
Reviewed on 16 April 2025 • Published on 15 May 2023
Reserved environment variablesLink to this anchor
The following standardized Scaleway environment variables are used for the CLI and API.
| Variable | Description | Legacy variables |
|---|---|---|
$SCW_ACCESS_KEY | Theaccess key of a token | $SCALEWAY_ACCESS_KEY (used by Terraform/OpenTofu) |
$SCW_SECRET_KEY | Thesecret key of a token | $SCW_TOKEN (used by the CLI), $SCALEWAY_TOKEN (used by Terraform/OpenTofu), $SCALEWAY_ACCESS_KEY (used by Terraform/OpenTofu) |
$SCW_DEFAULT_REGION | Your defaultregion | $SCW_REGION (used by the CLI),$SCALEWAY_REGION (used by Terraform/OpenTofu) |
$SCW_DEFAULT_ZONE | Your defaultAvailability Zone | $SCW_ZONE (used by the CLI),$SCALEWAY_ZONE (used by Terraform/OpenTofu) |
$SCW_API_URL | URL of the API | - |
$SCW_INSECURE | Set this variable to true to enable theinsecure mode | $SCW_TLSVERIFY (inverse flag used by the CLI) |
$SCW_PROFILE | Set the configuration profile to use | - |
$SCW_PROJECT_ID | YourProject ID | $SCW_DEFAULT_PROJECT_ID |
$SCW_ORGANIZATION_ID | YourOrganization ID | $SCW_DEFAULT_ORGANIZATION_ID, $SCW_ORGANIZATION (used by the CLI),$SCALEWAY_ORGANIZATION (used by Terraform/OpenTofu) |
Environment variables priorityLink to this anchor
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/OpenTofu configuration file).
Variables defined in the
Scaleway configuration file
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