Variable Substitution in a Key of a YML file in docker-compose

Is there any way to place a variable name as the creation of a network?..
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the reason why I want to do it, is that the same project is mounted on the same server of “developers” (not in production) and each one has its isolated development environment, I would like to use the same YML file and only change one environment variable, instead of everyone having to modify their YML files, avoid that by accident they commits with their particular configurations.

when creating a network with key: net_$COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME_stable_internal is taken literally and there is no substitution of environment variables

however in the part of:

 networks:
          - net_${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}_stable_internal

If the substitution is done correctly, I guess it’s because it’s not a “key” if it’s not a “value”, And so here if you apply in the right way

when running the comanto I get the following error

$ docker-compose pull

WARNING: Some networks were defined but are not used by any service: net_$COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME_stable_outside, net_$COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME_stable_internal

ERROR: Service “php” uses an undefined network “net_PROJECT-NAME-EXAMPLE_stable_internal”

this is an example of the YML file

version: "3.7"
    services:


      php:
        image: php:7.2-fpm-alpine
        networks:
          - net_${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}_stable_internal

      db:
        image: percona:5.7
        ports:
          - ${DB_PORT_EXPOSED}:3306
        environment:
          MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: ${MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD}
          MYSQL_DATABASE: ${MYSQL_DATABASE}
          MYSQL_USER: ${MYSQL_USER}
          MYSQL_PASSWORD: ${MYSQL_PASSWORD}
        networks:
          - net_${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}_stable_internal
        restart: always

      nginx:
        image: nginx:stable
          - ../appication:/var/www/html
        networks:
          - net_${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}_stable_outside
          - net_${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}_stable_internal
        restart: always


    networks:
# ----- ᛎᛎᛎᛎᛎᛎᛎᛎᛎᛎᛎᛎᛎ this is the part that doesn't work the change of variable 
      net_${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}_stable_outside:
        external:
          name: ${DOCKER_NETWORK}
      net_${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}_stable_internal:
        driver: bridge

After looking for a couple of hours


I realized that COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME itself changes the name of the network.

my mistake, not noticing, thank you for the help anyway.

GitHub API keys weren’t on the internet, there is an alternative: the .env file!!