How to set System Wide Environment Variable in Cloud Config File on Digital Ocean

Question

I am pretty new to setting up remote servers, but I was playing around today and was hoping that I could leverage a Cloud Config file upon setup in order to set a few environment variables as the server spins up.

How can I set my environment variables programmatically when spinning up a machine on Digital Ocean? The key is that I want to automate the setup and avoid interactively defining these variables.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This is what I did with for ubuntu

write_files:
- path: /etc/environment
  content: |
    FOO="BAR"
  append: true