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Shujaat Ali
Shujaat Ali

Reputation: 11

Kubernetes Access Windows Environment Variable

How i can access or read windows environment variable in kubernetes. I achieved the same in docker compose file.

How i can do the same in kubernetes as i am unable to read the windows environment variables?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 106

Answers (1)

David Maze
David Maze

Reputation: 159372

Nothing in the standard Kubernetes ecosystem can be configured using host environment variables.

If you're using the core kubectl tool, the YAML files you'd feed into kubectl apply are self-contained manifests; they cannot depend on host files or environment variables. This can be wrapped in a second tool, Kustomize, which can apply some modifications, but that explicitly does not support host environment variables. Helm lets you build Kubernetes manifests using a templating language, but that also specifically does not use host environment variables.

You'd need to somehow inject the environment variable value into one of these deployment systems. With all three of these tools, you could include those in a file (a Kubernetes YAML manifest, a Kustomize overlay, a Helm values file) that could be checked into source control; you may also be able to retrieve these values from some sort of external storage. But just relaying host environment variables into a container isn't an option in Kubernetes.

Upvotes: 1

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