Set Env Var With Dokku Without A Restart

I'm about to deploy a feature to production via Dokku. That feature relies on a couple new env vars being set in that environment. I want to make sure those are set before I deploy so that the updates to the web app can read them right away.

Typically to set or update an env var via dokku, I'd run a command like this via ssh:

ssh my-app-prod 'dokku config:set my-app INTERCOM_APP_ID=abc123'

When I run the above command, it will trigger an app restart so that the new env var is picked up.

In my case, what I would prefer to do is set a couple env vars without triggering the restart and then follow that with a production deploy which will then pick up the updated environment.

I can do that with the --no-restart flag.

ssh my-app-prod 'dokku config:set --no-restart my-app INTERCOM_APP_ID=abc123 OTHER_FEATURE_ENV=taco'

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