OpenShift Downward API Operations

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• OpenShift Operations
• Downward API

Expose OpenShift Information to Pod via Environment Variables

Edit the deployment configuration for the pod we want to expose data to:

oc edit dc/<dc-name>

Add the following environment entires:

...
spec:
  ...
  template:
    ...
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: printenv
        env:
          - name: POD_NAME
            valueFrom:
              fieldRef:
                fieldPath: metadata.name
          - name: POD_NAMESPACE
            valueFrom:
              fieldRef:
                fieldPath: metadata.namespace

The deployment configuration will produce a pod that contains the following environment properties in its environment:

POD_NAME=something-cm34t
POD_NAMESPACE=lab4

This can be verifying by oc rsh into the pod and executing "printenv".