AWS Elastic Beanstalk: Running Cron.d script, missing Environment Variables

Question

I\'m trying to run a PHP script that is triggered by a cron script (in cron.d). The script is triggered properly but it is missing the Elastic Beanstalk \"Environment Variab

Answer 1

I know this is an old thread but I recently needed to do something similar in a Node.js environment deployed on Elastic Beanstalk; for what I could tell, the file /opt/elasticbeanstalk/support/envvars is not present on Node.js environments. I ended up writing a Python script that loaded the environment variables from /opt/elasticbeanstalk/bin/get-config, and then executing my Node.js script from there.

The code I ended up using was:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os
import subprocess
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, call
import simplejson as json

envData = json.loads(Popen(['/opt/elasticbeanstalk/bin/get-config', 'environment'], stdout = PIPE).communicate()[0])

for k, v in envData.iteritems():
    os.environ[k] = v

call(["babel-node", "/var/app/current/.js"])

Hope this helps anyone needing to do the same.

For the complete configuration I deployed, you can refer to my original post How to set environment variables in Amazon Elastic Beanstalk when running a cron job (Node.js)