Is there a way to pass environment variables through the services in Kubernetes?
I tried passing it in to my service yaml like this:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
labels:
name: kafka
name: kafka
spec:
ports:
- port: 9092
selector:
name: kafka
env:
- name: BROKER_ID
value: "1"
The service is being consumed by kubectl, and is created.
I've confirmed the service is connected to my container through env | grep KAFKA
and the output of variables greatly increase, as expected when my service is up.
However, I would like to pass in custom environment-variables that have to be different depending on which instance of the container it is in.
Is this possible?
The way that Kubernetes is designed has Services decoupled from Pods. You can not inject a Secret or an env var into a running Pod. What you want is to configure the Pod to use the env var or Secret.
This is the best way I've found so far: (reading required) https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/4710
Roughly, create a secret in a file that's mounted and source it before you execute your script.