I have a twitter bot which I am attempting to deploy to my server with Docker; I don't want to save my API keys & Access Tokens in the code, so I access them via env variables.

I ssh'ed into the server and exported the keys & tokens in my ~/.profile, yet when I run the Docker container on my server, I get an error as if my keys/tokens are incorrect.

I'm new to Docker so I have to ask - Is my running Docker container able to access these env variables? Or do I have to set them another way such that my Docker container can see them?

CodePudding user response：

Docker can't access the env vars on the server. You need to pass them explicitly when running the docker using -e / --env flag.

Example: docker run --env VAR1=value1 --env VAR2=value2 ...

Documentation: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/run