Need ability to reference service deployment names in configuration

[hpreston]

Use case.. I'm building a multi-service application/project where each service needs to find others based on configurations within Environment Variables with containers, or some other method for just code work. I need a way to refer to the API service when configuring/building the UI service that will be consistent across environments and build.

Example I have a data service, that is called "hpreston-myhero-data" in Shipped.

In building an API service, I need to identify the URL for the data service as an environment variable. I'd like to use something like "{{hpreston-myhero-data.url}}" that can be filled in at deployment time.

Right now, I'd need to know exactly what the URL will be and specify in the Compose Phase, which seems to be impossible...

In addition to URL, it would be great to expose other characteristics in the format that can be used in other services in the project.

Ideas and Examples:

• .url
• .port
• .status
• .taskname

Or basically anything we can learn from the under the hood systems.

[mikeihbe]

So you can follow along:

We're handling this in 2 phases: https://github.com/CiscoCloud/shipped/issues/1449 https://github.com/CiscoCloud/shipped/issues/1960

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Hank Preston notifications@github.com wrote:

Use case.. I'm building a multi-service application/project where each service needs to find others based on configurations within Environment Variables with containers, or some other method for just code work. I need a way to refer to the API service when configuring/building the UI service that will be consistent across environments and build.

Example I have a data service, that is called "hpreston-myhero-data" in Shipped.

[image: screen shot 2016-07-14 at 2 38 11 pm] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/10178776/16856863/583406b0-49d1-11e6-9072-bb347686b6ab.png

In building an API service, I need to identify the URL for the data service as an environment variable. I'd like to use something like "{{hpreston-myhero-data.url}}" that can be filled in at deployment time.

[image: screen shot 2016-07-14 at 2 38 56 pm] https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/10178776/16856859/5474f35e-49d1-11e6-8f7f-cc38ff66f888.png

Right now, I'd need to know exactly what the URL will be and specify in the Compose Phase, which seems to be impossible...

In addition to URL, it would be great to expose other characteristics in the format that can be used in other services in the project.

Ideas and Examples:

• .url
• .port
• .status
• .taskname

Or basically anything we can learn from the under the hood systems.

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[npateriya]

@hpreston shipped auto setup environment varaible HOST_SERVICENAME of all peer service in project. I made myhero app working on shipped sometime back, please refer https://github.com/npateriya/myhero-app2/blob/master/app.py#L207 for example api referring myherodata.

[npateriya]

@hpreston shipped auto setup environment varaible HOST_SERVICENAME of all peer service in project. I made myhero app working on shipped sometime back, please refer https://github.com/npateriya/myhero-app2/blob/master/app.py#L207 for example api referring myherodata. More dynamic variable key value assignment will be handled later as mike mentioned but this solution enables no hardcoding of endpoint.

[hpreston]

@mikeihbe those links give me 404 errors? Is that Private Repo I can get access to?

[hpreston]

@npateriya I recalled you'd gotten MyHero up in Shipped before, but didn't know where the example code was. Thanks for the pointer, I'll be able to use that method as a stopgap until more options become available.