Passing ENV variables to a microservice

There might be certain variables that your microservices need but they might depend on the environment the microservices are running in. For example, API keys for dev vs prod.

You can provide environment variables (or env variables) for a microservice to use by editing the k8s.yaml file found at /microservices/<my-microservice>/k8s.yaml and adding a few lines. By combining this with templating capabilities, you get a highly configurable environment.

Note

The k8s.yaml file is generally a part of the code repository and hence should not store any sensitive variables in it. See Project secrets to handle sensitive variables.

Let’s say you need to add four ENV variables as follows:

  • CLUSTER_NAME should get the name of the cluster
  • RELEASE_MODE should be production for the cluster with alias prod and dev for all other clusters
  • X_ACCNT_ID is a fixed value, say GH456C
  • X_API_KEY is a secret value, say x.api.key (See Project secrets)

The k8s.yaml for such a configuration would look like the following:

   apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
   kind: Deployment
   metadata:
     creationTimestamp: null
     labels:
       app: app
       hasuraService: custom
     name: app
     namespace: '{{ cluster.metadata.namespaces.user }}'
   spec:
     replicas: 1
     strategy: {}
     template:
       metadata:
         creationTimestamp: null
         labels:
           app: app
       spec:
         containers:
         - image: hasura/hello-world:latest
           env:
           - name: CLUSTER_NAME
             value: '{{ cluster.name }}'
           - name: RELEASE_MODE
           {% if cluster.alias == "prod" %}
             value: production
           {% else %}
             value: dev
           {% endif %}
           - name: X_ACCNT_ID
             value: GH456C
           - name: X_API_KEY
             valueFrom:
               secretKeyRef:
                 name: hasura-secrets
                 key: x.api.key
           imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
           name: app
           ports:
           - containerPort: 8080
             protocol: TCP
           resources: {}
         securityContext: {}
         terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 0
   status: {}

To apply the changes, commit the k8s.yaml file and git push hasura master to deploy.

These variables will now be available and can be consumed from the application code within the microservice as ENV variables.

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