SpiceDB is an open source, Google Zanzibar-inspired, database system for creating and managing security-critical application permissions.

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is that what's in the environment variable or is that your CLI flag?

I'm setting this through the spicedb-operator, e.g. as it's done in this example https://github.com/authzed/spicedb-operator/blob/main/examples/cockroachdb-tls-ingress/spicedb/spicedb.yaml#L28

That then uses the connection-uri to set the SPICEDB_DATASTORE_CONN_URI environment variable in the spicedb pods.