Hey all. I'm having problems where I set the environment variables using --env but I can't seem to access them from within the flow running on a Kubernetes agent I'm running my agent using  

prefect agent install kubernetes --api "<http://10.154.15.199:4200>" --rbac --resource-manager --env DB_HOST=10.104.145.11 --env CRUNCHBASE_API_KEY=XYZ | kubectl apply -f -

I try to access them using

os.getenv()

but cannot access them. Has anyone had similar issues?

Hi Philip - can you confirm that those environment flags are also present in your k8s

yaml

file? If you just inspect the output of

prefect agent install kubernetes --api "<http://10.154.15.199:4200>" --rbac --resource-manager --env DB_HOST=10.104.145.11 --env CRUNCHBASE_API_KEY=XYZ

and look for

DB_HOST

, etc.

Hi Chris. Thanks for your quick response. Yes they look like this in the yaml file:

- name: PREFECT__CLOUD__AGENT__ENV_VARS__DB_HOST

     

value: 10.104.145.11

- name: PREFECT__CLOUD__AGENT__ENV_VARS__CRUNCHBASE_API_KEY

     

value: XYZ

Ok great, and what Prefect environment are you using for your Flow?

11.5

Ah I mean what environment class? https://docs.prefect.io/orchestration/execution/overview.html#environments Are you using the default?

I believe so

AH I actually think I see the issue; I think this might be a bug in that yaml spec! Let me open a GitHub issue for you and see if we can reproduce + fix it before our next release

Okay thanks

Hi @Philip Bennett - FYI the fix for this was just released with version 0.13.5 - thanks for letting us know about it!

No problem - thanks so much for quickly applying the fix.