[systemd-devel] Query regarding "EnvironmentFile"

[Alex Crawford]

On 12/23, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 23.12.15 06:01, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson (johannbg at gmail.com) wrote:
> > What usescases do you see for it's existence.
> 
> Well, the usecase that this is what's out there right now, and we have
> to stay compatible. It's not precisely an exotic feature, we can
> easily deprecated. It's unfortunately pretty popular.

We use it within CoreOS to allow the user to inject dynamic data into the
service. For example, you may have a service like this:

 $ cat etcd.service
 [Unit]
 Requires=metadata.service
 After=metadata.service

 [Service]
 EnvironmentFile=/run/coreos/metadata
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/etcd --public-ip=${COREOS_PRIVATE_IPV4}

where "metadata.service" populates /run/coreos/metadata with a bunch of info
about the system (like Facter from puppet). The user can then pick and choose
the appropriate variables to use (maybe they need the public address instead)
and override the ExecStart in a drop-in.

I like this model and I'm not sure how I would solve this if EnvironmentFile
didn't exist.

-Alex
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