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Jordi
Jordi

Reputation: 23187

fiware orion: configure by environment

We are trying to deploy orion into kubernetes.

We're looking for a way to configure it using environment variables or a configuration file.

According documentation we're not quite figure out how to get since it seems that only we can set configuration using command line options.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 132

Answers (2)

fgalan
fgalan

Reputation: 12294

Recently Orion has implemented env var support. You can have a look to this section of the documentation about it.

Currently this is implemented in master (so if you use Orion from dockerhub using :latest you would get it) and it will be available in the next Orion release (2.5.0).

Upvotes: 0

Jose Manuel Cantera
Jose Manuel Cantera

Reputation: 853

As you said and as far as I know the Orion container does not support env vars which makes things only a bit harder.

you need to create a K8s ConfigMap with all the Orion's configuration vars, ex. 

kubectl create configmap orion-config --from-literal='MONGO_DATASTORE=mongo-db`

for instance the mongoDB datastore you are going to use.

then you need to fill in the env of the Orion container in the corresponding K8s Deployment from such a ConfigMap ex. 

"envFrom": [
                            {
                                "configMapRef": {
                                    "name": "orion-config"
                                }
                            }
                        ]

and in the container command args you need to reference the ConfigMap properties through the $(VAR) syntax defined by K8s, example:

"args": [
                            "-dbhost",
                            "$(MONGO_DATASTORE)" ]

I hope this helps

Upvotes: 2

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