I'm creating an environment-variable with

 env :
        - name: GCE_ENV
          value: my-value

Is there a way to consume that from Java / Scala?

 "echo $GCE_ENV" !!

Did not grab it; I guess the JVM console session doesn't get it set?

Logging into the container did work

kubectl exec -it POD -- /bin/bash
bash-4.3$ echo $GCE_ENV
my-value