Being new to python & docker, I created a small flask app (test.py) which has two hardcoded values:
username = "test"
password = "12345"
I'm able to create a Docker image and run a container from the following Dockerfile:
FROM python:3.6
RUN mkdir /code
WORKDIR /code
ADD . /code/
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
EXPOSE 5000
CMD ["python", "/code/test.py"]`
How can I create a ENV variable for username & password and pass dynamic values while running containers?
Within your python code you can read env variables like:
import os
username = os.environ['MY_USER']
password = os.environ['MY_PASS']
print("Running with user: %s" % username)
Then when you run your container you can set these variables:
docker run -e MY_USER=test -e MY_PASS=12345 ... <image-name> ...
This will set the env variable within the container and these will be later read by the python script (test.py)
More info on os.environ and docker env
In your Python code you can do something like this:
# USERNAME = os.getenv('NAME_OF_ENV_VARIABLE','default_value_if_no_env_var_is_set')
USERNAME = os.getenv('USERNAME', 'test')
Then you can create a docker-compose.yml file to run your dockerfile with:
version: '2'
services:
python-container:
image: python-image:latest
environment:
- USERNAME=test
- PASSWORD=12345
You will run the compose file with:
$ docker-compose up
All you need to remember is to build your dockerfile that you mentioned in your question with:
$ docker build -t python-image .
Let me know if that helps. I hope that answers your question.
I split my docker-compose into docker-compose.yml (base), docker-compose.dev.yml, etc., then I had this issue.
I solved it by specifying the .env file explicitly in the base:
web:
env_file:
- .env
Not sure why, according to the docs it should just work if there's an .env file.
FROM python:3
MAINTAINER <[email protected]>
ENV username=test
password=12345
RUN mkdir /dir/name
RUN cd /dir/name && pip3 install -r requirements.txt
WORKDIR /dir/name
ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/local/bin/python", "./test.py"]
