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-rw-r--r--cmd/podman/root.go15
-rw-r--r--docs/source/markdown/podman.1.md4
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/cmd/podman/root.go b/cmd/podman/root.go
index 45ca48c39..3bb45f806 100644
--- a/cmd/podman/root.go
+++ b/cmd/podman/root.go
@@ -128,6 +128,21 @@ func persistentPreRunE(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
return err
}
+ for _, env := range cfg.Engine.Env {
+ splitEnv := strings.SplitN(env, "=", 2)
+ if len(splitEnv) != 2 {
+ return fmt.Errorf("invalid environment variable for engine %s, valid configuration is KEY=value pair", env)
+ }
+ // skip if the env is already defined
+ if _, ok := os.LookupEnv(splitEnv[0]); ok {
+ logrus.Debugf("environment variable %s is already defined, skip the settings from containers.conf", splitEnv[0])
+ continue
+ }
+ if err := os.Setenv(splitEnv[0], splitEnv[1]); err != nil {
+ return err
+ }
+ }
+
if cmd.Flag("cpu-profile").Changed {
f, err := os.Create(cfg.CPUProfile)
if err != nil {
diff --git a/docs/source/markdown/podman.1.md b/docs/source/markdown/podman.1.md
index ce02ef3a7..c45c10243 100644
--- a/docs/source/markdown/podman.1.md
+++ b/docs/source/markdown/podman.1.md
@@ -123,6 +123,10 @@ NOTE --tmpdir is not used for the temporary storage of downloaded images. Use t
Print the version
+## Environment Variables
+
+Podman can set up environment variables from env of [engine] table in containers.conf. These variables can be overridden by passing environment variables before the `podman` commands.
+
## Exit Status
The exit code from `podman` gives information about why the container