Kubernetes: Is there a way to retrieve or inject local env vars into configmap.yaml? [duplicate] - kubernetes

Question

I am setting up the kubernetes setup for django webapp.
I am passing environment variable while creating deployment as below
kubectl create -f deployment.yml -l key1=value1
I am getting error as below
error: no objects passed to create
Able to create the deployment successfully, If i remove the env variable -l key1=value1 while creating deployment.
deployment.yaml as below
#Deployment
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
labels:
service: sigma-service
name: $key1
What will be the reason for causing the above error while creating deployment?

Answer 1

I used envsubst (https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/envsubst-Invocation.html) for this. Create a deployment.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: $NAME
labels:
app: nginx
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: nginx
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: nginx
spec:
containers:
- name: nginx
image: nginx:1.7.9
ports:
- containerPort: 80
Then:
export NAME=my-test-nginx
envsubst < deployment.yaml | kubectl apply -f -
Not sure what OS are you using to run this. On macOS, envsubst installed like:
brew install gettext
brew link --force gettext

Answer 2

This isn't a right way to use the deployment, you can't provide half details in yaml and half in kubectl commands. If you want to pass environment variables in your deployment you should add those detail in the deployment spec.template.spec:
You should add following block to your deployment.yaml
spec:
containers:
- env:
- name: var1
value: val1
This will export your environment variables inside the container.
The other way to export the environment variable is use kubectl run (not advisable) as it is going to be depreciated very soon. You can use following command:
kubectl run nginx --image=nginx --restart=Always --replicas=1 --env=var1=val1
The above command will create a deployment nginx with replica 1 and environment variable var1=val1

Answer 3

You cannot pass variables to "kubectl create -f". YAML files should be complete manifests without variables. Also you cannot use "-l" flag to "kubectl create -f".
If you want to pass environment variables to pod you should do like that:
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: nginx-deployment
labels:
app: nginx
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: nginx
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: nginx
spec:
containers:
- name: nginx
image: nginx:1.7.9
env:
- name: MY_VAT
value: MY_VALUE
ports:
- containerPort: 80
Read more here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/inject-data-application/define-environment-variable-container/

Answer 4

Follow the below steps
create test-deploy.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: MYAPP
labels:
app: nginx
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: nginx
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: nginx
spec:
containers:
- name: nginx
image: nginx:1.7.9
ports:
- containerPort: 80
using sed command you can update the deployment name at deployment time
sed -e 's|MYAPP|my-nginx|g' test-deploy.yaml | kubectl apply -f -

Answer 5

File: ./deployment.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: MYAPP
labels:
app: nginx
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: nginx
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: nginx
spec:
containers:
- name: nginx
image: nginx:1.7.9
ports:
- containerPort: 80
File: ./service.yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: MYAPP
labels:
app: nginx
spec:
type: ClusterIP
ports:
- port: 80
selector:
app: nginx
File: ./kustomization.yaml
resources:
- deployment.yaml
- service.yaml
If you're using https://kustomize.io/, you can do this trick in a CI:
sh '( echo "images:" ; echo " - name: $IMAGE" ; echo " newTag: $VERSION" ) >> ./kustomization.yaml'
sh "kubectl apply --kustomize ."

Answer 6

I chose yq since it is yaml aware and gives a precise control where text substitutions happen.
To set an image from bash env var:
export IMAGE="your_image:latest"
yq eval '.spec.template.spec.containers[0].image = "'$IMAGE'"' manifests/daemonset.yaml | kubectl apply -f -
yq is available on MacPorts (as of 19/04/21 v4.4.1) with sudo port install yq

Answer 7

I was facing the same problem. I created a python script to change simple/complex or add values to the YAML file.
This became very handy in a similar situation that you describe. Also, switching to the python domain can allow for more complex scenarios.
The code and how to use it are available at this gist.
https://gist.github.com/washraf/f81153270c80b0b4ecf90a53872abde7

Answer 8

Please try following
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
namespace: kdpd00201
name: frontend
labels:
app: nginx
spec:
replicas: 6
selector:
matchLabels:
app: nginx
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: nginx
spec:
containers:
- name: frontend
image: ifccncf/nginx:1.14.2
ports:
- containerPort: 8001
env:
- name: NGINX_PORT
value: "8001"

Answer 9

My solution is then
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
creationTimestamp: null
labels:
app: frontend
name: frontend
namespace: kdpd00201
spec:
replicas: 4
selector:
matchLabels:
app: frontend
strategy: {}
template:
metadata:
creationTimestamp: null
labels:
app: frontend
spec:
containers:
- env: # modified level
- name: NGINX_PORT
value: "8080"
image: lfccncf/nginx:1.13.7
name: nginx
ports:
- containerPort: 8080