AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment variables in ASP.NET Core 1.0

Question

How do I get environment variables from elastic beanstalk into an asp.net core mvc application? I have added a .ebextensions folder with app.config file in it with the follo

Answer 1

Instead of having to parse the containerconfiguration you can leverage the ebextensions options to set the variable as part of your deploy process:

commands:
  set_environment: 
    command: setx ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT "Development" /M

This will set a global environment variable as part of your application deployment. This variable use-case is officially supported and documented by Microsoft.

After deploying your app you can verify the setting is set correctly in the EC2 instance: