# How do i provide token to run an image

**URL:** <https://community.doppler.com/t/how-do-i-provide-token-to-run-an-image/1741>\
**Category:** Need Help\
**Created:** [January 10, 2025, 3:37am UTC](https://community.doppler.com/t/how-do-i-provide-token-to-run-an-image/1741 "2025-01-10T03:37:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Yung\_Gai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.doppler.com/yung_gai/32/1211_2.png) [@Yung\_Gai](https://community.doppler.com/u/Yung_Gai)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 3:37am UTC](https://community.doppler.com/t/how-do-i-provide-token-to-run-an-image/1741/1 "2025-01-10T03:37:11Z")

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Hi Doppler community,

i am absolutely stuck right now. i need to run a custom image but i do not know how to provide token in my command line

\*$ docker run --name backend-deployment [repo.creepo.com:8443/flexi2/backend:v1.0](http://repo.creepo.com:8443/flexi2/backend:v1.0) \*  
_Doppler Error: you must provide a token_

I have the token but i do not know how to provide it in this case.

Please help me understand what could be the possible issue, and if i need to provide more info for a better answer. Thank you 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

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**Author:** ![watsonian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.doppler.com/watsonian/32/267_2.png) [@watsonian](https://community.doppler.com/u/watsonian)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.doppler.com/t/how-do-i-provide-token-to-run-an-image/1741/2 "2025-01-13T15:28:55Z")

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Hi @Yung_Gai!

What you’re after is discussed in our docs [here](https://docs.doppler.com/docs/dockerfile#running-the-container). The long and short of it is that you’d pass the token in like this:

```auto
docker run -e DOPPLER_TOKEN="$DOPPLER_TOKEN" --name backend-deployment repo.creepo.com:8443/flexi2/backend:v1.0

```

Or for local development if you want an ephemeral token that’ll expire, you could do something like this:

```auto
docker run --rm -it -e DOPPLER_TOKEN="$(doppler configs tokens create docker --max-age 1m --plain)" --name backend-deployment repo.creepo.com:8443/flexi2/backend:v1.0

```

Let me know if you have any additional questions!

Regards,  
-Joel

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**Author:** ![Yung\_Gai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.doppler.com/yung_gai/32/1211_2.png) [@Yung\_Gai](https://community.doppler.com/u/Yung_Gai)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 7:09am UTC](https://community.doppler.com/t/how-do-i-provide-token-to-run-an-image/1741/3 "2025-01-14T07:09:24Z")

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Hello @watsonian  
Thank you for the assistance, the solution you provide works. I’m sorry if i am also not being specific with this next issue.

```auto
 be_app-1 | Reading secrets from fallback file
 be_app-1 | Doppler Error: The fallback file does not exist
 be_app-1 | Unable to fetch secrets from the Doppler API
 be_app-1 | Doppler Error: You must specify a project

```

These are the errors i am getting are these related to the token? Do you maybe have any guidance of what are the i have made that could cause these issue please.

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![watsonian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.doppler.com/watsonian/32/267_2.png) [@watsonian](https://community.doppler.com/u/watsonian)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.doppler.com/t/how-do-i-provide-token-to-run-an-image/1741/4 "2025-01-14T15:22:48Z")

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If you’re using your CLI token (which is what you get when you do `doppler configure get token --plain`), then you need to specify the project and config being used if you haven’t already performed a `doppler setup` in the directory. So, if you’re generating a token you would do `doppler configs tokens create -p PROJECT -c CONFIG docker --max-age 1m --plain` (or something along those lines where `docker` is just the name you’re giving the token). For a simple run, you would do `doppler run -p PROJECT -c CONFIG -- ...`.