Ability to append environment variables for consul service via node attributes

[Vitali Zevako]

Would be nice to have ability to append environment variables for consul service via node attributes

Example:

default['consul']['environment'] = {
    'CONSUL_HTTP_SSL' => 'true',
    ...
}

And result of it:
Environment="GOMAXPROCS=8" "PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin" "CONSUL_HTTP_SSL=true"

[Mikhail Zholobov]

Hi @vitali-zevako,

It seems that CONSUL_HTTP_SSL env variable doesn't affect agent command. It makes sense only for user-faced commands, such as acl, members, kv and others (which are not covered by this cookbook), doesn't it?

For setting agent parameters, we recommend using config file options, which are managed by node['consul']['config'][<option_name>] attributes. That's the most straightforward way to pass any options to the agent.
Is there any significant reason to use env vars instead?

[Vitali Zevako]

Hi @legal90,

You are right. it will not affect

I looked for a way to prevent set manually env vars for consul cli commands with this cookbook and expected it will work if i update env vars for service, but that is different things.

Thanks for explanation, i will close a ticket

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