I am trying to read .env file using "dotenv" package but it returns undefined from process.env.DB_HOST after published to gcloud run. I see all files except for the .env file in root directory when I output all files to log. I do have .env file in my project on a root directory. Not sure why it's not getting pushed to gcloud or is it?. I do get a value when I tested locally for process.env.DB_HOST.
I used this command to publish to google run.
gcloud builds submit --tag gcr.io/my-project/test-api:1.0.0 .
If you haven't a .gcloudignore file in your project, gcloud CLI use the .gitignore by default
Create a .gcloudignore and put the file that you don't want to upload when you use gcloud CLI command. So, don't put the .env in it!
EDIT 1
When you add a .gcloudignore, the gcloud CLI no longer read the .gitignore file and use it instead.
Therefore, you can define 2 different logics
.gitignore list the file that you don't want to push to the repository. Put the .env file in it to NOT commit it
.gcloudignore list the file that you don't want to send with the gcloud CLI. DON'T put the .env file in it to include it when you send your code with the gcloud CLI
I am currently using nodejs that is deployed in ebs on aws. I have a function that will write a pdf and then email it off but it says the file path can't be found. I've verified the project file seems to be /var/app/current/, but changing the reference of the file path doesn't seem to remove the error. Any idea how to go about fixing this?
The /var/app/current/ does not exist initially. Its only created at the very last stage of your deployment.
The deployment happens in /var/app/staging/ folder, and at the very last, once everything finishes, /var/app/staging/ is moved into /var/app/current/.
Thus, I would not recommend using absolute paths in your project or config files. Its better to use relative path or container_commands for config scripts:
The specified commands run as the root user, and are processed in alphabetical order by name. Container commands are run from the staging directory, where your source code is extracted prior to being deployed to the application server.
When I run the following in jhipster-generator's /cli directory:
cd cli
node jhipster.js
I'm generating the application in the same directory (cli). How would I change this directory to somewhere else? For example, export all the generated files into a specific directory.
I believe the directory has something to do with this line of code in jhipster.js:
const localCLI = require.resolve(path.join(process.cwd(), 'node_modules', 'generator-jhipster', 'cli', 'cli.js'));
Note: I'm not running the application with "jhipster" command.
I am trying to push Kibana
https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana
to Bluemix PaaS via cloudfoundry. At cf push i get this error
Error uploading application.
GetFileAttributesEx C:\Users\asd\qwe\zxc\installedPlugins\shield\node_modules\eslint\node_modules\file-entry-cache\node_modules\flat-cache\node_modules\del\node_modules\globby\node_modules\glob\node_modules\inflight\node_modules\wrappy\package.json: The system cannot find the path specified.
i can see that the package.json is actually present at that path! How do i resolve this?
cf --version
cf version 6.12.4-b4b6af1-2015-09-18T10:55:12+00:00
The error is due to the file path being too long. Add the node_modules directory to a .cfignore file in the app's root directory and then push again. The node_modules won't be uploaded and will instead be installed as part of the staging process.
See https://github.com/IBM-Bluemix/nodejs-cloudant/blob/master/.cfignore for an example .cfignore.
You could also switch to npm v3 which keeps the node_modules directory flatter, but you still wouldn't normally push it with your app.
We have a nodejs project running on Amazon Elastic Beanstalk that uses private modules that we host using nodejitsu's private npm registry.
However getting access to the private npm registry from the elastic instances hasn't been straightforward and is not documented well.
What is the best way to get this access set up?
None of the other answers were working for me. After hours of hair pulling, we finally figured it out. The solution that worked is almost the same as the other answers but with a very minor tweak.
Set an NPM_TOKEN environment variable on Elastic Beanstalk under Configuration > Software Configuration > Environment Properties.
Create a .ebextensions/npm.config file. (The name does not have to be 'npm'.)
Put this content into the file:
files:
"/tmp/.npmrc":
content: |
//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${NPM_TOKEN}
Note that it uses ${NPM_TOKEN} and not $NPM_TOKEN. This is vital. Using $NPM_TOKEN will not work; it must have the curly braces: ${NPM_TOKEN}.
Why are the curly braces needed? No idea. In shell/POSIX languages, ${VAR} and $VAR are synonymous. However, in .npmrc files (at the time of this writing), variables without the curly brackets are not recognized as variables, so npm must be using a slightly different syntax standard.
UPDATE
Also, this has worked for us only on new or cloned environments. For whatever reason, environments which were not initialized with a /tmp/.npmrc will not read it in any future deployments before running npm install --production. We've tried countless methods on 4 different apps, but cloning and replacing an environment has been the only method which has worked.
So, we managed to get this working by using the npm userconfig file. See the doc page for npmrc for more info.
When a nodejs application is being deployed to Elastic Beanstalk, the root user runs npm install. So you will need to write the root's npm userconfig file, which is at /tmp/.npmrc.
So if you add a file called private_npm.config (or whatever name you choose) to your .ebextensions folder with all the information needed, you will be good to go. See Customizing and Configuring AWS Elastic Beanstalk Environments for more info.
So here is what my file looks like to use nodejitsu private registry.
.ebextensions/private_npm.config:
files:
#this is the npm user config file path
"/tmp/.npmrc":
mode: "000777"
owner: root
group: root
content: |
_auth = <MY_AUTH_KEY>
always-auth = true
registry = <PATH_TO_MY_REGISTRY>
strict-ssl = true
email = <NPM_USER_EMAIL>
Using an .npmrc within the project also works. For example...
.npmrc
registry=https://npm.mydomain.com
You may want to .gitignore this file if you include an _authToken line but make sure you don't .ebignore it so it's correctly bundled up with each deployment. After trying a few things unsuccessfully, I came across this post which made me realize specifying it locally in a project is possible.
The answer above as a step in the right direction, but the permissions and owner did not work for me. Managed to get it to work with the following combination:
files:
#this is the npm user config file path
"/tmp/.npmrc":
mode: "000600"
owner: nodejs
group: nodejs
content: |
_auth = <MY_AUTH_KEY>
always-auth = true
registry = <PATH_TO_MY_REGISTRY>
strict-ssl = true
email = <NPM_USER_EMAIL>
Place the below within your .ebextensions/app.config.
files:
"/tmp/.npmrc":
mode: "000777"
owner: root
group: root
content: |
//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=$NPM_TOKEN
Where NPM_TOKEN is an environment variable with the value of your actual npmjs auth token.
Note that environment variables within elasticbeanstalk can and should be set from within the AWS console Elasticbeanstalk software configuration tab.
AWS Elasticbeanstalk Configuration
In new Elastic Beanstalk Linux 2 Platforms, none of these solutions work (apart from the .npmrc file solution that works but has its issues when using them in development evironments due to the requirements that all developers have their ${NPM_TOKEN} Env Var defined in their own environments).
The reason is that the /tmp/.npmrc location no longer works.
Option 1
You have to change the .ebextensions/npm.config file to this new format:
files:
#this is the npm user config file path
"/root/.npmrc":
mode: "000777"
owner: root
group: root
content: |
_auth= ${NPM_TOKEN}
registry = https://{yourprivatenpmrepository.com}/
Option 2
Add a custom .npmrc_{any-suffix} to the root of your app and create a prebuild hook to rename it before Beanstalk executes the npm install so that it can use your private repository configuration:
Add the following file (path from your app root) .platform/hooks/prebuild/01_set_npmrc.sh with the following content:
#!/bin/bash
#Copy and rename .npmrc_beanstalk to .npmrc
mv .npmrc_beanstalk .npmrc
Create an .npmrc_beanstalk file in your root with the following content (modify it depending on your private npm config):
_auth= ${NPM_TOKEN}
registry = https://{yourprivatenpmrepository.com}/
Chmod the hook file so that it has the necessary exec permissions when uploaded to EB: chmod +x .platform/hooks/prebuild/01_set_npmrc.sh
Re-deploy using EB CLI and you are done!
With modern platforms, you no longer need to do this via .ebextensions
You can simply create a .npmrc file at the root of your deployment package, alongside your package.json with the following line:
//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${NPM_TOKEN}
Using this method, you can create an environment variable named NPM_TOKEN in your AWS console so you don't have to store the token in your repo.
Structure:
~/your-app/
|-- package.json
|-- .npmrc