By Taak srls
Hello, I was following the Django deployment tutorial (https://docs.digitalocean.com/tutorials/app-deploy-django-app/) and it says to set the enviroment variables to distinguish between dev and prod enviroment and to save the database settings, I have done that but when I run the building I get this error
Exception: DATABASE_URL environment variable not defined
How can I fix that?
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In the envs in the app spec the variable is defined as this
- key: DATABASE_URL scope: RUN_AND_BUILD_TIME value: ${cashunter-db.DATABASE_URL}
The DATABASE_URL bind variables are not available during build time. You have a couple options:
- Do your DB operations on app startup
- Use a Job
- Hardcode your database URL into an environment variable (preferably as a secret) – this is not ideal for dev databases as those are managed by App Platform and can be unavailable during build time.
Hope this helps!
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