Read the identifier and access key from environment variables

[fjunqueira]

When attempting to deploy a bot built with the BLiP SDK (using the console template) to a k8s cluster, I ran into the following problem:

• We have different clusters and bots for each of our environments
• The identifier and access keys are different for each of those environments and bots
• I wanted to store those identifiers and access keys as secrets in our k8s cluster and load them as environment variables
• Since the application.json file is not loaded using the ConfigurationBuilder class in the console template, I cant use the technique shown here to replace those settings with the contents from my environment variables.

What is the recommended way to proceed here? I saw that using the BlipClientBuilder directly would help me to work around this issue, but there is a bunch of configuration that is already done by the console template which i don't want to tinker with myself.

Are u guys accepting community PR's? Maybe adding a flag to the console template that makes it replace the identifier and accessKey loaded from the appsettings file with the contents of the BLIP_IDENTIFIER and BLIP_ACCESS_KEY environment variables would solve the issue.

Thank you for your time!

[lfmundim]

Hey @fjunqueira

First of all, community PR's are accepted and encouraged :) The maintainer team will happily review and comment on your PR, and possibly merge with master if everything is OK!

Regarding your issue, I'm not sure what problem you were experiencing. Could you provide repro-steps or maybe a repo? We have always used environment variables via CI providers by replacing the values within application.json

[ceifa]

Perhaps there is a better approach than forcing the use of application.json. A simple solution would be to expose the construction of the Application object in the template.