How to globally authenticate with ACF Pro via auth.json in a multiple website setup in Trellis

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I was writing my question and then figured out the answer. I’m going to share it here anyway in case someone else has the same problem.

As part of my build-before setup I’ve added an auth.j2 template to authenticate with ACF Pro. They require the license key as the username and the site’s URL as the password.

I was searching for answers to figure out how to retrieve wordpress_sites.[ current site ].site_hosts.canonical from within my auth.j2 template an realised this is done in .env

So I looked up roles/deploy/vars/main.yml and found how wp_siteurl is written to .env

So here’s the answer to the question I was stuck on for the last hour or so:

auth.j2

{
  "http-basic": {
    "connect.advancedcustomfields.com": {
      "username": "{{ vault_wordpress_env_defaults.acf_pro_key }}",
      "password": "{{ project.ssl.enabled | default(false) | ternary('https', 'http') }}://{{ project.site_hosts | map(attribute='canonical') | first }}"
    }
  }
}

build-before.yml

- name: Create composer auth.json
  template:
    src: "{{ playbook_dir }}/deploy-hooks/auth.json.j2"
    dest: "{{ deploy_helper.new_release_path }}/auth.json"
    mode: "0600"
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You may be interested in this approach (section “ACF PRO site-specific licenses”):