Environment variables defined in Manifest cannot be override

[rhuiser]

It is good practice to set default values for environment variables in the Manifest and only deploy time override those which require change.

While new variables are added to the deployment, the Manifest (default) values remain the same.

See pipeline snippet used where I set a new variable (version) and try to override the eureka client to false.

- name: my-app
  public: false
  serial: true
  plan:
  - get: my-app-deployment
  - get: my-app-release
  - put: cf-deploy
    params:
      manifest: my-app-deployment/cloudfoundry/manifest.yml
      path: my-app-release/my-component-((my-version)).jar
      current_app_name: my-app
      environment_variables:
         version: ((my-version)
         eureka.client.enabled: 'false'

manifest.yml

---
applications:
  - name: my-app
    instances: 1
    buildpack: https://github.com/cloudfoundry/java-buildpack#v4.2
    path: ./my-app.jar
    memory: 1024M
    disk_quota: 256M
    stack: cflinuxfs2
    no-route: true
    env:
       eureka.client.enabled: true

Now, when I inspect the app env after deployment...

$ cf env my-app
<...>
User-Provided:
eureka.client.enabled: true
version: 0.0.3

[jgcarmona-com]

Hey!

If we can't override values in the manifest or add env variables in our pipelines then this is useless, the entire artifact. When are you planning to work on this? We tried environment_variables, vars, and vars_files and none of them worked at all.

Please, at least give us some feedback.

Regards,

Juan