Introduction

Envite is a terminal application that keeps the environment variables of your projects in encrypted vaults and deploys them as .env files. A vault is shared by a team: every member opens it with their own password, and it can live on your disk, in a synchronized folder or on a server reached over SSH.

The problem

Environment variables tend to live in too many places: .env files copied between laptops, passwords pasted into chat, notes that nobody updates, servers whose .env was edited by hand and no longer matches anything. Nobody knows which value is current, who changed it, or what the file on the server really holds.

What envite does

• One source of truth. The vault holds every project, environment, section and variable. Nothing is kept in the clear: the whole content is encrypted in a single .envite file.
• Team access without shared passwords. Each member has their own key pair and password. Adding a member never reveals anyone else’s password; removing one rotates the vault key.
• Concurrent editing. Several members can have the same vault open at once. Changes are saved automatically and merged field by field; a real conflict is shown side by side so you can choose.
• Controlled deploys. Envite renders the .env file of an environment, compares it key by key with the file at the target and writes it only after you confirm, with a backup of the previous file and a warning when someone changed it by hand.
• Secrets stay masked. Secret values show as ******** everywhere — lists, history, diffs — until you explicitly reveal one.

What envite is not

Envite is not a secret server: there is no daemon, no network service and no account. It is a single binary that reads and writes files, using the system ssh client for anything remote. It does not inject variables into running processes either; it writes .env files that your applications or tools already read.

Platform

Envite runs on Linux, as a single static x86_64 binary. Other platforms are not supported yet.

Next steps

1. Install envite.
2. Create or open your first vault.
3. Take the tour of the screens.

The concepts section explains how vaults, members and merging work in depth.