Pulumi: Skipping Version Update Checks

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Pulumi provides an automatic version checking mechanism to inform users when a newer version of the CLI is available. When you run a Pulumi command, it checks for updates and displays a message if a newer version is found. This notification is helpful, especially if you want to stay current with the latest features and bug fixes.

If we want want to get rid of this version check automatically we can use the PULUMI_SKIP_UPDATE_CHECK environment variable.

22/09/2023

Kubernetes: How to push ConfigMap values as environment variables

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We can read values from a ConfigMap as a volume but we can present them to a Pod as an environment variable

27/10/2022

Expose Pod information using an environment variable

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Some applications might need to retrieve (or at least know) some of the Pod's metadata, for example, it's namespace. We can push this information using fieldPath without having to grant access to the Kubernetes API or using any template engine (such as Helm) to set it's value (at the end of the day it would be hardcoding the value on the Pod's definition)

04/01/2022

How to set a variable on terraform using environment variables

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To set a value for a variable on terraform we have several ways of doing it:

• Using the -var command line option.
• In variable definitions (.tfvars) files. The files named terraform.tfvars, terraform.tfvars.json or any files with names ending in .auto.tfvars or .auto.tfvars.json will be loaded automatically, but they can also be loaded using the -var-file option.
• As environment variables.

03/01/2022

Setting secret into a environment variable

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Although it's not a best practice to feed secrets into environment variables it's still something that it is possible to do. Let's take a glance on how to do it

05/03/2021