diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 84183ef..5c03a8a 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 0.10.2
+- Optionally skip all `sops` operations when `DISABLE_SOPS` environment variable it set
+
 ## 0.10.1
 - First official release supporting for Pulumi stacks
 - Dockerfile and Alpine based public images provided incl. Pulumi binaries and podman for docker tasks
diff --git a/cloudbender/__init__.py b/cloudbender/__init__.py
index 3160676..2b90842 100644
--- a/cloudbender/__init__.py
+++ b/cloudbender/__init__.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import logging
 
 __author__ = "Stefan Reimer"
 __email__ = "stefan@zero-downtimet.net"
-__version__ = "0.10.1"
+__version__ = "0.10.2"
 
 
 # Set up logging to ``/dev/null`` like a library is supposed to.
diff --git a/cloudbender/jinja.py b/cloudbender/jinja.py
index 58d4ee6..995b5c2 100644
--- a/cloudbender/jinja.py
+++ b/cloudbender/jinja.py
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ def _sops_loader(path):
         config_raw = f.read()
         data = yaml.safe_load(config_raw)
 
-        if data and 'sops' in data:
+        if data and 'sops' in data and 'DISABLE_SOPS' not in os.environ:
             try:
                 result = subprocess.run([
                     'sops',