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Gunicorn service can't read environment variables

March 2, 2017 1k views
Nginx Django PostgreSQL Ubuntu 16.04

I am having some troubles to configure a Django app (using virtualenv) with Postgres, Nginx, and Gunicorn on Ubuntu 16.04.

Everything worked fine until I started setting some environment variables for some Django configuration variables. Ex.: SECRETKEY = os.environ['DJANGOSECRET_KEY'].

I have tried a lot of options like setting variables on virtualenv's activate file, setting variables on ubuntu, and on gunicorn.service file but nothing is working.

Does anyone know how to work on this issue? How to set the environment variables?

2 comments
  • lcbacellar March 2, 2017

    I could make it work by defining the variables on gunicorn command in the file /etc/systemd/system/gunicorn.service but I still think that it is not the best solution =/

    [Service]
...
ExecStart=/virtuall_env_path/bin/gunicorn --workers 3 --bind unix:/path_to_myproject.sock myproject.wsgi:application -e my_var=value -e my_var2=value2
...
  • kameruchi May 11, 2017

    Hi! Instead of adding the variables to the gunicorn command line, you could load them through a file:
    <on gunicorn.service>
    [Service]
    ...
    EnvironmentFile=/pathto/somefilewith_secrets
    ...
    This should make the trick.
    (dont forget to create the file with those secrets)

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