Is there a way in Datomic Cloud to set custom UNIX environment variables that will be seen by the nodes in compute and query groups? I don’t see it anywhere in the documentation, and since the product creates the EC2 instances in AWS I doubt that the right thing to do is try to muck around in those resources directly (e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28643573/how-to-set-an-environment-variable-in-amazon-ec2).
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Are you using Datomic Ions to deploy application code? You can use parameter store to pass parameters: https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/ions/ions-reference.html#parameters
Yes, but what I need is a TIMBRE_LEVEL env variable set before the JVM starts so I can elide logging. The latest version of timbre can also deal with a JVM property, but unfortunately that is also a case where if the ns loads before you manage to set the property then it still won’t help. So, the best way to ensure it works is either if I can set a real JVM property (i.e. java -D...) or an environment variable that the JVM will see.
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I suspect you could modify the Cloudformation template to export the ENV var you need under TxLaunchConfig UserData property.
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Right, that was my suspicion. Thanks!