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What is Ghostable?

Ghostable is a secure, collaborative platform for managing, validating, and sharing environment variables in Laravel applications. Ghostable simplifies configuration management, enabling you to effortlessly secure and scale your development workflows. Ghostable abstracts the complexity of securely handling sensitive environment data, ensuring consistency and compliance across your projects and organizations. With Ghostable, you’ll benefit from:
  • Secure Sharing & Management: Safely share environment variables across organizations, projects, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Built-In Validation: Automatically enforce validation rules to ensure your environment variables adhere to best practices.
  • Comprehensive Versioning: Track every change with full history and instant rollbacks to previous environment configurations.
  • Granular Access Control: Precisely manage permissions at the user, organization, and project level.
  • Encrypted Storage: All environment variables are stored securely using industry-standard AES-256-GCM encryption.
  • CI/CD Integration: Seamlessly integrate Ghostable into your automated testing and deployment workflows.
  • Activity Logging: Complete audit trails of environment variable interactions for compliance and security audits.
  • Easy Local Inspection: Effortlessly pull environment variables locally for debugging and testing.
  • API Driven: Full-featured API to integrate with third-party compliance tools, monitoring platforms, and AI-powered workflows.
  • Customizable Validation: Define custom validation rules to meet the unique requirements of your environments.
In short, you can think of Ghostable as your central hub for secure, compliant, and collaborative environment variable management—built specifically with Laravel developers in mind.

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Requirements

Ghostable requires that your application be compatible with PHP 8.1+ and Laravel 10.0+.

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Account Creation

Before integrating Ghostable into your workflow, you’ll first need to create a Ghostable account. If you’re collaborating on projects managed by others, a Ghostable subscription isn’t necessary. Start here: Register for Ghostable

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Installing the Ghostable CLI

You will interact with your Ghostable environments using the Ghostable CLI. The CLI can be installed globally or on a per-project basis using Composer:

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Per-project installation:

composer require ghostable-dev/cli --update-with-dependencies

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Global installation:

composer global require ghostable-dev/cli --update-with-dependencies
When installing the CLI per-project, you’ll typically execute it via your project’s vendor/bin directory, where Composer installs executables. For example, to view all available Ghostable CLI commands: 
php vendor/bin/ghostable list
To save keystrokes, you can add a shell alias that maps ghostable to php vendor/bin/ghostable: 
alias ghostable="php vendor/bin/ghostable"

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Exploring Commands

To explore a command’s functionality and its arguments in detail, use the help command with the specific command name: 
ghostable help env:push

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Logging In

After installing the Ghostable CLI, authenticate with your Ghostable account using the login command: 
ghostable login
You’ll be prompted for:
  • Email address
  • Password (hidden)

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Organizations

When you create a Ghostable account, your first step is to create an organization. Organizations act as containers for your projects and environments, and you can belong to multiple organizations to collaborate with different groups or clients. All projects and environments in Ghostable belong to an organization. You can join other organizations as a collaborator or create your own to organize work by client or topic.

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Listing Organizations

To view all organizations you belong to: 
ghostable organization:list

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Current Organization & Switching Organizations

When working with the Ghostable CLI, you’ll often need to know which organization is currently active. To check your current organization: 
ghostable organization:current
To switch to another organization: 
ghostable organization:switch

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Collaborators

You can invite others to your organizations using the Ghostable web app: You’ll be able to assign specific roles and permissions, such as read-only or read-write access to environment variables. Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy outline the terms, conditions, and privacy practices for using Ghostable. By using Ghostable, you agree to these policies.