GitHub user intellisession created a discussion: SUPERSET_LOAD_EXAMPLES=no in 
docker/.env-local File Not Working When Using Docker Compose

### Bug description

TLDR: `SUPERSET_LOAD_EXAMPLES=no docker compose -f docker-compose-image-tag.yml 
up` is a solution/work that worked for Superset 5.0.0 and Docker Desktop 4.44.1 
(201842).

I followed the instructions here https://superset.apache.org/docs/quickstart/: 

```
# Enter the repository you just cloned
$ cd superset

# Set the repo to the state associated with the latest official version
$ git checkout tags/5.0.0

# Fire up Superset using Docker Compose
$ docker compose -f docker-compose-image-tag.yml up
```

Before I ran the `docker compose` command, I created a `docker/.env-local` 
containing SUPERSET_LOAD_EXAMPLES=no. I believe this is what the documentation 
says to do here essentially 
https://superset.apache.org/docs/installation/docker-compose/#configuring-further,
 and that's what this stackoverflow answer says too 
https://stackoverflow.com/a/79412095/8061073.

NOTE: I ran the `env` command in all of the containers, and I see that 
`SUPERSET_LOAD_EXAMPLES` gets set to `no`. (That is, `SUPERSET_LOAD_EXAMPLES` 
is not set to `yes` anywhere.)

However, this did not work. The examples still get loaded. Worse, I had tried 
to manually delete all of the examples, but when I restarted the containers 
(e.g. running `docker compose -f docker-compose-image-tag.yml up` after having 
first stopped them), the examples get loaded again...

I also recall trying to comment out the `SUPERSET_LOAD_EXAMPLES` variable 
altogether from `docker/.env`, but that did not work either.

However, when I remove the line `SUPERSET_LOAD_EXAMPLES: 
"${SUPERSET_LOAD_EXAMPLES:-yes}"` in the docker-compose file, the value in 
`.env-local` gets picked up, as expected. Thus, the right way to avoid loading 
examples is not to set `SUPERSET_LOAD_EXAMPLES=no` in `.env-local`, but to set 
the variable from the host shell essentially:

`SUPERSET_LOAD_EXAMPLES=no docker compose -f docker-compose-image-tag.yml up`

To prevent people from running into this issue in the future, we should do one 
of the following:
1. Remove `SUPERSET_LOAD_EXAMPLES: "${SUPERSET_LOAD_EXAMPLES:-yes}"` from the 
compose file.
2. Remove `SUPERSET_LOAD_EXAMPLES` from the `docker/.env` file (to prevent 
people from thinking that modifiying it there will have any effect), and change 
the documentation at 
https://superset.apache.org/docs/installation/docker-compose/#configuring-further
 and the Stackoverflow answer at https://stackoverflow.com/a/79412095/8061073 
telling people to prefix `SUPERSET_LOAD_EXAMPLES=no ` to their `docker compose` 
command.



### Screenshots/recordings

_No response_

### Superset version

5.0.0

### Python version

Not applicable

### Node version

18 or greater

### Browser

Chrome

### Additional context

Docker version is: `4.44.1 (201842)`

### Checklist

- [x] I have searched Superset docs and Slack and didn't find a solution to my 
problem.
- [x] I have searched the GitHub issue tracker and didn't find a similar bug 
report.
- [x] I have checked Superset's logs for errors and if I found a relevant 
Python stacktrace, I included it here as text in the "additional context" 
section.

GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/superset/discussions/34739

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