Accessing Elastic Beanstalk environment properties in Docker

Question

So I\'ve been looking around for an example of how I can specify environment variables for my Docker container from the AWS EB web interface. Typically in EB you can add env

Answer 1

I don't think the docs are a miss as Rohit Banga's answer suggests. Thought I agree that "you can define custom environment variables for your environment and expect that they will be passed along to the docker container".

The Docker container portion of the docs say, "No DOCKER-SPECIFIC configuration options are provided by Elastic Beanstalk" ... which doesn't necessarily mean that no environment variables are passed to the Docker container.

For example, for the Ruby container the Ruby-specific variables that are always passed are ... RAILS_SKIP_MIGRATIONS, RAILS_SKIP_ASSET_COMPILATION, BUNDLE_WITHOUT, RACK_ENV, RAILS_ENV. And so on. For the Ruby container, the assumption is you are running a Ruby app, hence setting some sensible defaults to make sure they are always available.

On the other hand, for the Docker container it seems it's open. You specify whatever variables you want ... they make no assumptions as to what you are running, Rails (Ruby), Django (Python) etc ... because it could be anything. They don't know before hand what you want to run and that makes it difficult to set sensible defaults.