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Reputation: 4136

Passing a JSON file as environment variable in gcloud

Im trying to pass a secret into a Cloud Run run command. The secret is a json file. I want to pass it in as an environment variable.

It works great in docker using:

docker run -it -e "SECRET_ENV=$(<path/secretFile.json)" -p 8080:8080 my_image

When I use the same method on gcloud I get an error that tells me its trying to run each line of the json file:

gcloud run deploy --image gcr.io/account/project --update-env-vars "SECRET_JSON=$(<path/secretFile.json)"

cheers

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4470

Answers (2)

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Reputation: 4136

Thanks @Kolban for working through the issue with me.

And

Thanks to @tzovourn for suggestion on berglas secret manager

It appears the GCP gcloud command is bugged and/or does not support JSON.

The solution I used in the end was to base 64 encode the json before setting it as an environment variable. Now docker and gcloud commands take the same data and format.

Upvotes: 3

tzovourn
tzovourn

Reputation: 1321

Currently gcloud run deploy doesn't support setting environment variables through a json file. More information about environment variables on Cloud Run can be found here.

You may want to file a Feature Request for this improvement.

Upvotes: 3

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