Referencing env variables from Elastic Beanstalk .ebextensions config files

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Kevin picture Kevin · May 16, 2013 · Viewed 14.9k times · Source

Is it posssible to reference the PARAM1 / PARAM2 etc.. container environment properties from the .ebextensions config files. If so, how? I tried $PARAM1 but it seemed to be an empty value.

I want to set the hostname on startup to contain DEV, QA or PROD, which I pass to my container via the PARAM1 environment variable.

commands:
  01-set-correct-hostname:
    command: hostname myappname{$PARAM1}.com

Answer

Kevin picture Kevin · May 17, 2013

It turns out you can only do this in the container_commands section, not the commands section.

This works:

container_commands:
  01-set-correct-hostname:
    command: "hostname myappname{$PARAM1}.com"

See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/customize-containers-ec2.html#customize-containers-format-container_commands for more details.

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