Job Configuration#

Configure a Job with a public image, command, timeout, non-secret environment variables, secret names, labels, and optional organization namespace.

1export API_TOKEN="secret-value"2mega jobs run --detach \3  -e MODE=release \4  --secret API_TOKEN \5  -l project=demo \6  --timeout 20m \7  python:3.12-slim python task.py

Use -e only for non-secret values. --secret NAME reads a local environment variable without printing its value. Unsupported capabilities return 422; do not assume that a Docker option is available merely because another service accepts it.

--env-file and --secrets-file accept dotenv files. Values passed with --env override same-name non-secret file entries; secret file values are sealed before the Job is stored and are never returned by the API.

For a temporary private shell, use --ssh with a long-running detached Job. The account needs a registered SSH key and can connect only while its Job is running: mega jobs ssh JOB_ID. This does not expose a container port.

For a UV script, use mega jobs uv run SCRIPT --with PACKAGE; the same environment, secret, mount, timeout, namespace, and private SSH options apply.