Answers to: Configure Administrators by Environment variable in Axon.ivy 8

Comment by vinh_ on Alex Suter's answer

vinh_ — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 20:55:22 -0400

Hi Alex, I think merging the ivy.yaml "on-the-fly" is possible, it will require some scripting work. Thank you for a good discussion.

Comment by Alex Suter on Alex Suter's answer

Alex Suter — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 03:53:36 -0400

I think it is possible with ConfigMap to split them in smaller files and merge them together "on-the-fly"? If not, then you may start a feature request for the Axon.ivy platform that you are able to split ivy.yaml in multiple files.

Comment by vinh_ on Alex Suter's answer

vinh_ — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 05:56:11 -0400

I am using ConfigMaps, I want to separate those configurations into many ConfigMaps, then expose them as environment variables, the only alternative way I know is store the whole ivy.yaml inside a key/value of ConfigMap, I don't know if I could split ivy.yaml into smaller files?

Comment by Alex Suter on Alex Suter's answer

Alex Suter — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 04:02:58 -0400

Could be possible when you escape the key. But I'm not sure.

It's quite hard to configure the hole ivy with environment variables. I don't recommend it. If you are in containerized environment like Kubernetes then you better use ConfigMap.

Comment by vinh_ on Alex Suter's answer

vinh_ — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 03:37:10 -0400

How about the global variables, I could see it has SPACE in the key: https://developer.axonivy.com/doc/8.0/engine-guide/configuration/files/app-yaml.html?highlight=global%20variables

Comment by vinh_ on vinh_'s question

vinh_ — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 03:35:58 -0400

Thanks about the example. It clear for me.

Answer by Alex Suter

Alex Suter — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 03:09:04 -0400

The name of the administrator is part of the environment variable key:

This installs an administrator with name admin and password admin.

IVY_ADMINISTRATORS_ADMIN_PASSWORD: admin

This example installs an administrator with name vinh and password 1234

IVY_ADMINISTRATORS_VINH_PASSWORD: 1234

Comment by Oliver Heer on vinh_'s question

Oliver Heer — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 03:05:44 -0400

Hello vinh, you are spot on, an example of the environment variables is available in our docker examples: https://github.com/ivy-samples/docker-samples/tree/master/ivy-environment-variables