How to pass variables to a docker-compose.yml file using another .env file

[PROGamersf]

thanks ! it is really short and helpful

[mattmartin]

is it possible to access a .env file from a service like secretsmanager? i have my .env file in my gitignore so that it does not get committed. For context im using jenkins so it will pull from the repo

[metaweatherforcast]

is it possible to get env variables from the yaml file if yaml and .env files aren't in the same folder. How can i do it?