---
title: "Flask"
description: "How to use Infisical to inject environment variables and secrets into a Flask app."
---

Prerequisites:

- Set up and add envars to [Infisical Cloud](https://app.infisical.com)
- [Install the CLI](/cli/overview)

## Initialize Infisical for your [Flask](https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.2.x) app

```bash
# navigate to the root of your of your project 
cd /path/to/project

# then initialize Infisical
infisical init
```

## Start your application as usual but with Infisical

```bash
infisical run -- <your application start command>

# Example 
infisical run -- flask run
```