# Is it impossible to use variables on provider?

**URL:** <https://forum.serverless.com/t/is-it-impossible-to-use-variables-on-provider/7859>\
**Category:** Serverless Framework\
**Created:** [March 30, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/is-it-impossible-to-use-variables-on-provider/7859 "2019-03-30T17:17:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 30, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/is-it-impossible-to-use-variables-on-provider/7859/1 "2019-03-30T17:17:09Z")

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Hey, I found that my deploy failed every time, and came to the conclusion that it was because I was using variables in the provider section of serverless.yml. Is it possible to do it in some way? I want this so that I can have a config file which I can reference on every service for a multi-service repo.