Database Environment Variables not available with systemd unit start

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#1

I have my package-based docker container based on the univention/ucs-appbox-amd64:4.2-2 image up and running. My app is started - as suggested - via a systemd service unit.

The app fails to start up, because it is missing the environment variables (DB_HOST, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME and so on) to connect to the host’s mysql database. I’ve dump a list of the environment during the application’s startup:

Mar 06 15:27:30 kitom-23801244 bash[8569]: environ({‘PATH’: ‘/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin’, ‘LANG’: ‘C.UTF-8’, ‘KITOMA_CONFIG’: ‘/opt/kitoma/config/default.py’, ‘FLASK_APP’: ‘kitoma’, ‘_’: ‘/opt/kitoma/bin/python3.4’, ‘PWD’: ‘/opt/kitoma’, ‘KITOMA_MODE’: ‘WEB’, ‘SHLVL’: ‘1’, ‘PYTHONPATH’: ‘/opt/kitoma/’})

The set variables are configured in the systemd unit:

[Unit]
Description=Kitoma VOIP-Management

[Service]
User=kitoma
Environment=PYTHONPATH=/opt/kitoma/
Environment=FLASK_APP=kitoma
Environment=LANG=C.UTF-8
Environment=KITOMA_CONFIG=/opt/kitoma/config/default.py
Environment=KITOMA_MODE=WEB
WorkingDirectory=/opt/kitoma/
ExecStart=/opt/kitoma/bin/python3.4 -m flask run --host 0.0.0.0

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Please note that the required environment variables are available when I run the application manually from the bash console. I also tried to set ExecStart to start with

/bin/bash -c "myapp"

but it did not change the behavior. At the moment I have no idea how to make sure that the environment variables are injected into the systemd unit’s context.

#3

Hi,

maybe it is possible to use EnvironmentFile? You could write it manually in a custom setup file (that calls the original setup script at the end).

https://wiki.univention.de/index.php/Docker_Apps/Container_Scripts
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Systemd#EnvironmentFiles_and_support_for_.2Fetc.2Fsysconfig_files

Regards,
Dirk Wiesenthal

#4

Thanks this works. After some more investigation systemd does not embed the enviornment variables at all as it runs in a very own context.

I create my environment file now in the join script and this works fine.

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