Environment Variables

[nelsonic]

We already have a means of packaging an .env file with environment variables that works well.

AWS Recently introduced support for Environment Variables for Lambda Functions:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/env_variables.html

which appear to be supported in the JavaScriptSDK: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/Lambda.html

Should we update our deployment to use set them?

[nelsonic]

It has come to our attention that AWS excludes any AWS related environment variables loaded via an .env file ... 🙄
So we have to implement this now!

[nelsonic]

Obviously I can't add this via Lambda: (cause why would they want to make this easy?!)

[nelsonic]

Reserved keys:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/configuration-envvars.html

Basically there is no way we're going to get around this.
I've tried exporting the keys with totally different identifiers, and they get scrubbed by AWS!!