SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE and Helm

Question

I have a very strange scenario playing out right now with my configs where environment vars don't seem to be honored by the container.

I'm trying to set the active spring profile via the deployment.xml file like this:

...
containers:
- env:
  - name: SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE
    value: {{ .Values.springProfile }}
...

This seems to work properly as on my pod I see the following:

However, when I check my logs I can see that it is clearly using the wrong profile, likely the default profile.

Some environment details:

AWS EKS
Base docker image is amazoncorretto
Helm is being used

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I guess its Yaml file, and what you passing in `springProfile` , is it not staging? — Saikat Chakrabortty, Jul 28 '20 at 14:29
Yes, it's a yaml file :) staging is the correct env I'm trying to set it to but it's not being picked up by the app for some reason. — user1170235, Jul 28 '20 at 15:48
don't put The hyphen `- env:` will be `env:`, see here an example: https://github.com/saikatharryc/helm/blob/master/charts/judge0/templates/deployment.yaml#L75 — Saikat Chakrabortty, Jul 29 '20 at 01:41

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 29 '20 at 02:56

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OK, so I figured it out... everything is working fine. I was misinterpretting my logs and thought that what I was seeing indicated the profile wasn't being picked up.

Everything works fine :)

answered Jul 29 '20 at 02:56

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