Environment variables are not supported

[blackxored]

Environment vars (through environment under both provider and in the actual function declaration in serverless.yml doesn't seem to be supported. Furthermore, there isn't even a warning about it. As someone pretty much forced to deploy something on GCF as opposed to AWS Lamda this is rather confusing and an obvious feature to have. Is there somewhere I can find documentation about this?

[jbutz]

As far as I can tell Google's Cloud Functions don't support environment variables. Google's API documentation for Functions doesn't seem to make any reference to them.

I haven't tried it, but you may be able to use the dotenv npm package along with including a .env file in the upload to Google to get environment variables loaded in.

I've also seen where people added build steps to create files to include instead of using environment variables. This is an article that I have seen written on the subject.

[aaronkchsu]

I mean how far away is this feature?? :(

[adimoraret]

I was not able to make it work with dotenv npm package. I've installed serverless-dotenv-plugin which from the documentation looks more optimized for AWS rather than for Google Cloud.
I've got it working by putting environment variables in a separate js file, referencing it in index.js and make sure it's not included as part of commits :)

Totally a workaround which shouldn't be use in any production code. Too bad this feature is not yet available...

[hamikm]

+1 would love to see this feature

[jbutz]

It looks like environment variables are a beta feature in Google's API now, so adding this feature shouldn't be too hard. It would be very similar to how I added labels (#95)

[nethunter]

I created a pull request that adds environment variables 2 weeks ago: #117

[mrdulin]

Need this feature

[nethunter]

Need this feature

You can use my pull request (#117) for now, I've been using it for 2 months with no problems.

[mrdulin]

@nethunter How can I use it?

[nethunter]

@mrdulin replace your serverless-cloud-functions line in package.json with this:

"serverless-google-cloudfunctions": "https://github.com/nethunter/serverless-google-cloudfunctions/tarball/master

and then in serverless.yml, under your provider add "environment" and add all the environment variables you want

[mrdulin]

@nethunter thanks. It works. I made a sample for passing environment variables:

.env => serverless.yml => cloud functions

https://github.com/mrdulin/nodejs-serverless-framework/tree/master

[pickypg]

Now that #117 is merged, this can be closed.

[pmuens]

Thanks for opening @blackxored and thanks for updating @pickypg 👍

The latest version of this plugin supports env vars. Closing...

[ncjones]

Where's the docs?

[pizzarob]

@pmuens How can environment variables added via serverless.yml be used within cloud functions ?

[pizzarob]

Nevermind it's the same as aws config. Can this be updated in the google cloud docs? Maybe a general section on general valid config options that works for every provider.