Upload .env environment variables to elastic beanstalk

Question

As far as I know the only way to set environment variables to elastic beanstalk is either:

1. The AWS Online Console.
2. The eb setenv command.

I have a .env file in my project that contains all of my environment variables over 100 variables and I'm looking for a way to push them all to the eb instance at the same time.

Answer 1

First off, you should note that Elastic Beanstalk has a limit of fifty (50) environment variables per environment.

Now, if you've got a bunch of environment variables set in a .env file, an easy way to set them en-mass is to just dump them all into the eb setenv command like this...

eb setenv `cat .env | sed '/^#/ d' | sed '/^$/ d'`

This will set them all in one shot and save you spending all night on the aws console page. The sed command remove commented lines and new lines.

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