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services create --from does not copy environment vars #33
Description
When cloning a service using render services create --from <id>, environment variables from the source service are not copied to the new service. All other configuration (image, runtime, region, plan, build/start commands, etc.) is cloned correctly, but secrets must be re-added manually afterwards.
Reacted by David Harting
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[-]`services create --from` does not copy environment[/-][+]`services create --from` does not copy environment vars[/+]davidharting commentedon Sep 14, 2026
Thanks so much for opening this issue, @Andrej730!
@tejchilli / @mosslilley - Can you think of any downsides to copying environment variables over when cloning a service? Any reason this wasn't done initially aside from just not including the extra API calls?