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roby.elan
roby.elan

Reputation: 144

nodejs process.env variables not working in aws lambda

Created a nodejs lambda function locally and integrated dotenv, so that env variables are accessed using process.env method. It is working. While deploying the same lambda and when tested inside aws console, it is returning undefined for env variable. Any idea why it so.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5606

Answers (4)

Yohann Atticot
Yohann Atticot

Reputation: 21

In my case AWS and Google Cloud Platform not allow us to use some keywords name in the variable environnement like :

not ok :  AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = "XXXXX"
ok : CLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_ID = "XXXXX"
not ok : AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = "XXX"
ok CLOUD_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = "XXX"

Upvotes: 0

Nico Serrano
Nico Serrano

Reputation: 797

In case it helps: you need to specify the environment variable in lambda function section of the template.yaml file as well. Example:

requestRetrievalFunction:
 ...
 Properties:
  ...
  Environment:
        Variables:
          EMAILS_TABLE: !Ref EmailsTable
          TIME_TO_EXPIRE: 20
  ...

In my particular case I am using two env variables (EMAILS_TABLE and TIME_TO_EXPIRE). For local testing I defined them in the env.json file too:

{
    "requestRetrievalFunction": {
        "EMAILS_TABLE": "nico-ppot",
        "TIME_TO_EXPIRE": 30
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

progman
progman

Reputation: 386

You have to mention in Environment variables at Lambda.

Edit to add the variables in Lambda

either if you are using server-less template to deploy , mentioned under 'Environment'

# serverless.yml

 provider:
  name: aws
  runtime: nodejs4.3
  environment:
   envOne: 12345678

 functions:
  myFunction:
  environment:
   envTwo: 87654321

Reference : https://www.serverless.com/blog/serverless-v1.2.0

https://www.serverless.com/framework/docs/providers/aws/guide/variables/

Upvotes: 0

mostafazh
mostafazh

Reputation: 4215

Download your deployment zip file from S3 and make sure it has the .env file.

Upvotes: 1

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