Hi all I m having trouble passing env variables into my kube

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Hi all I m having trouble passing env variables into my kubernetes jobs in Prefect v1 2 so that they re available while my code is running I m running jobs in multiple Kubernetes clusters and need to provide some cluster specific variables to each flow run Based on some other posts above I ve tried starting my agent in three different ways it seems like passing as ` env` at agent startup is a great solution but the env variable is null for all three of these approaches 1 passing as arg in `prefect agent kubernetes start env SERVICES ENDPOINT=XYZ` 2 passing directly as an env var to the agent dont think this is expected to work 3 passing as `PREFECT CLOUD AGENT ENV VARS ` any thoughts on what i could be doing wrong i tried each of these individually

Luke Segars · Answer

I can t add the variables flow registration time b c the values of the env vars will vary depending on which cluster the job is running in so I need to figure out someway to populate them from the agent runtime i think

Bianca Hoch · Answer

Hello Luke you should be able to use option 1 to accomplish what you re trying to do here

Bianca Hoch · Answer

For the `prefect agent kubernetes start env SERVICES ENDPOINT=XYZ` command can you try setting the ` SERVICES ENDPOINT ` key like so prefix the variable with `PREFECT ` and use two underscores ` ` to separate each part of the key Just going off what is mentioned in the <https docs v1 prefect io core concepts configuration html environment variables|docs>

Bianca Hoch · Answer

Also here is a discourse article which covers how to set environment variables on agent startup The example pertains to secrets but the env variables you want to capture here can be set in a similar fashion <https discourse prefect io t how to set secrets e g github access token on server 70>