How to Use App Platform Environment Variable on Run Command

This is what I ultimately ended up with creating: https://github.com/timnolte/imapsync-worker

And my App Spec looks like this:

alerts:
- rule: DEPLOYMENT_FAILED
- rule: DOMAIN_FAILED
name: imapsync-worker
region: nyc
workers:
- dockerfile_path: Dockerfile
  envs:
  - key: USER1
    scope: RUN_TIME
    value: <omitted>
  - key: PASSWORD1
    scope: RUN_TIME
    type: SECRET
    value: <omitted>
  - key: USER2
    scope: RUN_TIME
    value: <omitted>
  - key: PASSWORD2
    scope: RUN_TIME
    type: SECRET
    value: <omitted>
  - key: OPTS
    scope: RUN_TIME
  github:
    branch: main
    deploy_on_push: true
    repo: timnolte/imapsync-worker
  instance_count: 1
  instance_size_slug: basic-xxs
  log_destinations:
  - logtail:
      token: <omitted>
    name: imapsync-worker
  name: imapsync-worker
  run_command: emailsync gmail2gmail
  source_dir: /

Hello,

I have just tested this and it seems to be working.

Are you defining the scope of your environment variables as per the documentation here:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/how-to/use-environment-variables/#define-build-time-environment-variables

If so, you need to make sure that you’ve also defined the variables to have a RUN_TIME scope so that you could use them for your run commands:

    envs:
    - key: RUNTIME_ONLY_VAR
      scope: RUN_TIME
      value: i'm a little teapot

Or alternatively, if you need the environment variables for both the run and the build times, you could use RUN_AND_BUILD_TIME.

I tested this with the following simple deployment:

alerts:
- rule: DEPLOYMENT_FAILED
name: testapp
region: fra
services:
- environment_slug: php
  envs:
  - key: TEST
    scope: RUN_AND_BUILD_TIME
    type: SECRET
    value: EV[1:jKc4tNWFtX6EE12356DESA9IkSX4W1L:tnxT09rsY+q7aDrUu7P3Z7y5J9E=]
  github:
    branch: main
    repo: myrepo/demo
  http_port: 8080
  instance_count: 1
  testapp: basic-xs
  name: guild
  routes:
  - path: /
  run_command: 'echo "test: ${TEST}" > test.txt ; heroku-php-apache2 public/'
  source_dir: /

Best,

Bobby