kubernetes: set environment variable as integer
Generally it was answered in comment, however I'll add references from official kubernetes documentation.
env
field uses EnvVar array
. Based on EnvVar v1 core API group, name
and value
should be only strings.Please see EnvVar v1 core
And here is an official example to see how variables are set:
apiVersion: v1kind: Podmetadata: name: dependent-envars-demospec: containers: - name: dependent-envars-demo args: - while true; do echo -en '\n'; printf UNCHANGED_REFERENCE=$UNCHANGED_REFERENCE'\n'; printf SERVICE_ADDRESS=$SERVICE_ADDRESS'\n';printf ESCAPED_REFERENCE=$ESCAPED_REFERENCE'\n'; sleep 30; done; command: - sh - -c image: busybox env: - name: SERVICE_PORT value: "80" - name: SERVICE_IP value: "172.17.0.1" - name: UNCHANGED_REFERENCE value: "$(PROTOCOL)://$(SERVICE_IP):$(SERVICE_PORT)" - name: PROTOCOL value: "https" - name: SERVICE_ADDRESS value: "$(PROTOCOL)://$(SERVICE_IP):$(SERVICE_PORT)" - name: ESCAPED_REFERENCE value: "$$(PROTOCOL)://$(SERVICE_IP):$(SERVICE_PORT)"
Link to this example is here