Support for Setting Environment Variables in Startup Command for Azure Web App

[levitin]

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Description

I am trying to set environment variables in the startup command for an Azure App Service using azurerm_linux_web_app. Specifically, I want to configure a Docker container with an environment variable in the startup command to trigger a maven profile.

Expected Behavior

The expected behavior is that the startup command should be able to set environment variables for Docker, similar to the following:

docker run -d --expose=8080 -e VARIABLE=false mydomain.azurecr.io/image-name:latest 

Actual Behavior Currently, it seems that the startup command does not support setting environment variables in this manner. As a result, I'm unable to configure my container to use specific environment variables.

New or Affected Resource(s)/Data Source(s)

azurerm_linux_web_app

Setting Environment Variable over Portal

Potential Terraform Configuration

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References

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[alainkaiser]

Would love to see this as well, maybe in the site_config section :)

[bdc]

app_settings does this:

resource "azurerm_linux_web_app" "app_service" {
  ...
  app_settings = {
    "BEST_SEA_CREATURE" = "octopus"
  }
}

import os
best = os.environ.get("BEST_SEA_CREATURE")