Not setting NODE_ENV to production.

Hey,

I have a project which is deployed to GAE and is using this image as base, but i want to deploy a dev version of this app.

I’ve created a simple app-dev.yaml file, which looks like this:

service: dev-api
runtime: custom
vm: true
threadsafe: false

env_variables:
  NODE_ENV: development

But it isn’t picked up by Dockerfile, is there any way to work around this?

[JustinBeckwith]

Interesting - we’ll do some testing to figure out why this isn’t working. In the meantime - can you try setting the env var via your Dockerfile? Try adding this:

ENV NODE_ENV production

My guess is that we have a bug with the interaction between env vars set by Flex and env vars set in the base dockerfile.

[RawanHerzallah]

Hi, I’ve been trying to pass env_variables from the app.yaml with cutom runtime to the dockerFile and the value I read for it is empty, any advice ?

23:48:19 env_variables:
23:48:19   JETTY_ARGS: -Djava.util.logging.config.file=WEB-INF/flex.logging.properties
23:48:19   NODE_NAME: sre-testing-metricbeat

However, when i try to read its value i see it empty:

23:50:46 [INFO] GCLOUD: Step 14/21 : RUN echo "__________________ $NODE_NAME ____________"
23:50:46 [INFO] GCLOUD:  ---> Running in 41737ae048df
23:50:46 [INFO] GCLOUD: __________________  ____________