Environment variables in pipestat

Both the command line interface (CLI) and Python API support a collection of environment variables, which can be used to configure pipestat actions.

Here is a list of the supported environment variables:

Environment variable	API argument	Description
PIPESTAT_RECORD_IDENTIFIER	record_identifier	record identifier to report for. This creates a weak bound to the record, which can be overridden in this object method calls
PIPESTAT_CONFIG	config	path to the configuration file or a mapping with the config file content
PIPESTAT_RESULTS_FILE	results_file_path	YAML file to report into, if file is used as the object back-end
PIPESTAT_RESULTS_SCHEMA	schema_path	path to the output schema that formalizes the results structure
PIPESTAT_STATUS_SCHEMA	status_schema_path	path to the status schema that formalizes the status flags structure
PIPESTAT_TYPE	pipeline_type	sample or project-level PipestatManager