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Hi, is it possible to access `METAFLOW_PROFILE` as an env variable inside a flow when running on a k8s cluster?

I tried accessing it locally just as any env variable which worked. It's only when running on the k8s cluster that it can't find the env variable.

you can use the `@environment` decorator for this use case

curious - what is the need to access metaflow_profile env var? you wouldn't have access to the same configuration on the remote instance

We are sending some slack notification with much more metadata from inside the flow. We want to identify on which metaflow instance  (prod/staging/dev) the flow is running. Our METAFLOW_PROFILE is usually set to `&lt;prod|staging|dev&gt;` . So I thought this would be an easy way to fetch this information.

you can use `--branch` to segment your flows into prod, staging, dev etc.