Google cloud error when deploying container: environment variable is missing

Question

When trying to deploy my docker container to Google cloud I got the error (RuntimeError) environment variable DATABASE_URL is missing. even though I had successfully set the DATABASE_URL variable using the instructions here .

This error happens after I run the command gcloud run deploy --image gcr.io/PROJECT-ID/backend --platform managed any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You will need to set environment variables for Cloud Run gcloud run... , using the instructions here:

https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/run/deploy#--set-env-vars

Something of the form:

gcloud run deploy ${NAME} \
--image=gcr.io/${PROJECT-ID} \
--set-env-vars=DATABASE_URL="[[DATABASE-URL]]" \
...

The instructions you reference are for Cloud Composer which is a different Google service and it has different requirements.

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