By samlown
Our Go application, previously built as a docker repo, uses NATS and requires a credentials file to load. Their libraries do no support anything else (as far as I can tell.)
I can set the credential file’s contents in an encrypted environment variable, but I have been unable to copy it into place using the “Run Command” configuration option. Setting the command to the following for example just gives back [] during deployment in the logs, which I’m assuming is some kind of security mechanism:
sh -c 'echo $NATS_CREDS_FILE > /app/config/nats.creds'
./app serve
Is there any other way to achieve this? Thanks.
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Hey there!
I assume you are building this as a Dockerfile build. If not please let me know.
Environment variables are only available as build-args for Dockerfile builds in App Platform. So you should declare them in the Dockerfile as an ARG and then set the ENV variable in the Dockerfile from the build-arg.
Something like this may work:
ARG TEST_VARIABLE
ENV NATS_CREDS_FILE=${TEST_VARIABLE}
TEST_VARIABLE would be the encrypted variable you set in the UI. You could then set the value to a file the same as you have it in your run command.
Hope it helps! Nate
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