SAM build in container with environment variables

Question

Is there a way to pass environment variables to the container doing the build in:

sam build --use-container

In the sam build documentation, in parameters related to Docker, there is only --docker-network and --skip-pull-image

I am using private PyPI repository, and I need to pass credentials as environment variables.

A workaround is:

New parameters were released: --container-env-var and --container-env-var-file in v1.20.0

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 05 '21 at 10:52

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Starting from release v1.20.0 (2021-03-04) you can pass environment variables to the container, either from the command line:

sam build --use-container \
    --container-env-var Function1.GITHUB_TOKEN=<token1> \
    --container-env-var GLOBAL_ENV_VAR=<global-token>

or from a file:

sam build --use-container --container-env-var-file <env-file.json>

Ref: sam build documentation

answered Mar 05 '21 at 10:52

forzagreen

Hey @forzagreen, do you know how to use the --container-env-var in the rest of the code ? Where can I reference them ? from the docs it seems that it's a good way to pass a github token, still can't figure out how to use it. – Roy Assis Apr 20 '23 at 20:17
@RoyAssis, what do you mean by "the rest of the code" ? `template.yaml` ? do you want to use environment variables at build or at deploy ? – forzagreen Apr 25 '23 at 10:38
I want to use it at build – Roy Assis Apr 25 '23 at 11:02
where ? in template.yaml ? in Dockerfile ? – forzagreen Apr 25 '23 at 14:17
I want to use it in the Dockerfile – Roy Assis Apr 28 '23 at 12:49
In Dockerfile you add these 2 lines: `ARG YOUR_VAR` and `ENV YOUR_VAR=${YOUR_VAR}` – forzagreen Apr 28 '23 at 13:11
I tried that, seems that doesn't work when trying to pass params with --container-env-var – Roy Assis Apr 28 '23 at 16:53

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