Has anyone had an issue with env vars not getting passed fro

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Has anyone had an issue with env vars not getting passed from the agent to the job with a kubernetes run leveraging `PREFECT CLOUD AGENT ENV VARS` agent variable

Bianca Hoch · Answer

Hi Alex here are a few follow up questions Are you getting a specific error What is your use case

Alex Shea · Answer

I am trying to pass environment variables whos contents are managed within IaC to also be passed into the flow execution that way I don t want my data engineers to need to know anything about IaC when working within our systems

Alex Shea · Answer

The agent is being deployed as version 1 0 0 as we are migrating from ecs to kubernetes I am am trying not to change compatibility I am using this variable as documented in the help text ``` e env TEXT Environment variables to set on each submitted flow run ```

Alex Shea · Answer

the command I used to generate the deployment was the `prefect agent kubernetes install` with the env There wasn t any documentation and I used the errors from the flow deployment to help me understand I had variables getting passed in but I did not check to see how they were getting passed Now I have an error when trying to use ENV variables in a dbt metadata file

Bianca Hoch · Answer

Can you provide and example of how you re using the env call Also here s an <https discourse prefect io t how to set secrets e g github access token on server 70|article> that outlines how to use env for setting secrets which is done in a similar fashion

Bianca Hoch · Answer

Also the syntax in the yaml for the agent deployment will appear something like this ``` name PREFECT CLOUD AGENT ENV VARS value test test2 ```