Environment variables¶

Environment variables can be supplied to the Inmanta server and its agents.

Supplying environment variables to the Inmanta server¶

The Inmanta server loads the environment variables specified in /etc/sysconfig/inmanta-server at startup. The example below defines three environment variables:

OS_AUTH_URL=http://openstack.domain
OS_USERNAME=admin
OS_PASSWORD=sYOUZdhcgwctSmA

These environment variables are accessible in a configurationmodel via the std::get_env(name: "string", default_value: "string"=None) plugin as shown in the following snippet:

import std
import openstack

provider = openstack::Provider(name="openstack",
                               connection_url=std::get_env("OS_AUTH_URL"),
                               username=std::get_env("OS_USERNAME"),
                               password=std::get_env("OS_PASSWORD"),
                               tenant="dev")

Supplying environment variables to an agent¶

A manually started agent loads the environment variables specified in /etc/sysconfig/inmanta-agent at startup. This can be useful when a handler relies on the value of a certain environment variable.