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Hi, I've been reading these docs on using Kubernetes for executing flows, however I can't seem to figure out how to specify that an environment variable should be filled in from a kubernetes secret in the prefect deployment yaml file. Any guidance here would be appreciated.
<https://docs.prefect.io/latest/guides/deployment/kubernetes/>

I thought it might be in the under
```job_variables:
  env:
    ...```
but it seems Prefect expects the value of `env` to be an object, whereas when you're defining a kubernetes deployment yaml file, `env` is a list of environment variables, i.e.
```env:
- name: POSTGRES_PASSWORD
  valueFrom:
    secretKeyRef:
      name: db-password
      key: db-password```
so not exactly sure how define this in the prefect deployment yaml file.

you can edit the expected type for `env` in your work pool config's advanced tab

can you try this? under `variables` -> `properties`
```      "env": {
        "title": "Environment Variables",
        "anyOf": [
          {
            "type": "object"
          },
          {
            "type": "array"
          }
        ],
        "description": "Environment variables to set when starting a flow run.",
        "additionalProperties": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      }```

just edited a slight correction in case you already copied it

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you should even see a type picker in the UI once you save it

<@U05TQMN8RUP> That worked great! Thanks again :slightly_smiling_face: