The standardized environment variables available for applications hosted on OpenShift.
The standardized environment variables available for applications hosted on OpenShift. A number of standardized environment variables are available for applications hosted on OpenShift Online. These variables serve as placeholders for application names, commonly accessed directory names, user names, passwords, host names, IP addresses, and more. The specific environment variables that are available to a given application is determined by the cartridges that have been added to that application. For example, an application with PHP and MySQL has access to environment variables that expose the PHP path information, including the host, port, user name, and password necessary for connecting to the MySQL database.
