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 Signing and pushing trust metadata
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+When working directly with the Notary client, it will use its [own set of environment variables](/notary/reference/client-config.md#environment-variables-optional).
+
 ## Building with content trust
 
 You can also build with content trust. Before running the `docker build` command, you should set the environment variable `DOCKER_CONTENT_TRUST` either manually or in a scripted fashion. Consider the simple Dockerfile below.