Snyk CLI commands fail in some environments but not others using same Auth token

Problem:

Especially when running within a container or pipeline, the Snyk CLI commands may fail in some environments, but succeed in others using the same SNYK_TOKEN or snyk config api settings. 

When running the test with -d (debug) command, the error can be seen to be 

"Failed to determine default value for "ORGANIZATION":unable to retrieve org ID (status: 401)"

possibly combined with

CustomError: Authentication failed. Please check the API token on https://snyk.io

Discussion:

An issue was found in CLI versions prior to 1.1191.0 where Authentication was utilising the presence of a TOKEN environment variable

Resolution:

Update your cli version to 1.1191.0 or higher