# Exposer les informations du Pod aux containers via les variables d'environnement

LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt)

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Cette page montre comment un Pod peut utiliser des variables d'environnement pour
exposer ses propres informations aux containers qu'il exécute via la  
_downward API_.
Vous pouvez utiliser des variables d'environnement pour exposer des champs 
de configuration du Pod, des containers ou les deux.

Dans Kubernetes, il y a deux façons distinctes d'exposer les champs de
configuration de Pod et de container à l'intérieur d'un container:

* _Via les variables d'environnement_, comme expliqué dans cette tâche,
* Via un [volume](/docs/tasks/inject-data-application/downward-api-volume-expose-pod-information/)

Ensemble, ces deux façons d'exposer des informations du Pod et du container sont appelées la _downward API_.

## Pré-requis

<p>Vous devez disposer d'un cluster Kubernetes et l'outil de ligne de commande kubectl doit être configuré pour communiquer avec votre cluster.
Si vous ne possédez pas déjà de cluster, vous pouvez en créer un en utilisant <a href="/docs/setup/minikube">Minikube</a>, ou vous pouvez utiliser l'un de ces environnements Kubernetes:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://labs.iximiuz.com/playgrounds?category=kubernetes&filter=all">iximiuz Labs</a></li>
<li><a href="https://killercoda.com/playgrounds/scenario/kubernetes">Killercoda</a></li>
<li><a href="https://kodekloud.com/public-playgrounds">KodeKloud</a></li>
</ul>


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## Utiliser les champs du Pod comme variables d'environnement

Dans cette partie de l'exercice, vous allez créer un Pod qui a un container,
et vous allez projeter les champs d'informations du Pod à l'intérieur du
container comme variables d'environnement.


















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    <div class="includecode" id="pods-inject-dapi-envars-pod-yaml"><div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-yaml" data-lang="yaml"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nt">apiVersion</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">v1</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nt">kind</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">Pod</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nt">metadata</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">  </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">dapi-envars-fieldref</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nt">spec</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">  </span><span class="nt">containers</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">    </span>- <span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">test-container</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">image</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">registry.k8s.io/busybox</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">command</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">[</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&#34;sh&#34;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&#34;-c&#34;</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">args</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">      </span>- <span class="l">while true; do</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="l">echo -en &#39;\n&#39;;</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="l">printenv MY_NODE_NAME MY_POD_NAME MY_POD_NAMESPACE;</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="l">printenv MY_POD_IP MY_POD_SERVICE_ACCOUNT;</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="l">sleep 10;</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span><span class="l">done;</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">env</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span>- <span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">MY_NODE_NAME</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="nt">valueFrom</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">            </span><span class="nt">fieldRef</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">              </span><span class="nt">fieldPath</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">spec.nodeName</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span>- <span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">MY_POD_NAME</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="nt">valueFrom</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">            </span><span class="nt">fieldRef</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">              </span><span class="nt">fieldPath</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">metadata.name</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span>- <span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">MY_POD_NAMESPACE</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="nt">valueFrom</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">            </span><span class="nt">fieldRef</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">              </span><span class="nt">fieldPath</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">metadata.namespace</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span>- <span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">MY_POD_IP</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="nt">valueFrom</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">            </span><span class="nt">fieldRef</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">              </span><span class="nt">fieldPath</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">status.podIP</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span>- <span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">MY_POD_SERVICE_ACCOUNT</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="nt">valueFrom</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">            </span><span class="nt">fieldRef</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">              </span><span class="nt">fieldPath</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">spec.serviceAccountName</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">  </span><span class="nt">restartPolicy</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">Never</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span></code></pre></div></div>
</div>

Dans ce fichier de configuration, on trouve cinq variables d'environnement.
Le champ `env` est une liste de variables d'environnement.
Le premier élément de la liste spécifie que la valeur de la variable d'environnement
`MY_NODE_NAME` hérite du champ `spec.nodeName` du Pod.
Il en va de même pour les autres variables d'environnement, qui héritent
des autres champs du Pod.

<div class="alert alert-info" role="note"><h4 class="alert-heading">Note</h4>Les champs de configuration présents dans cet exemple sont des champs du Pod. Ce ne sont pas les champs du container à l'intérieur du Pod.</div>


Créez le Pod:

```shell
kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/pods/inject/dapi-envars-pod.yaml
```

Vérifiez que le container dans le Pod fonctionne:

```shell
# Si le nouveau Pod n'est pas fonctionnel, re-exécutez cette commande plusieurs fois
kubectl get pods
```

Affichez les logs du container:

```shell
kubectl logs dapi-envars-fieldref
```

Le résultat doit afficher les valeurs des variables d'environnement choisies:

```
minikube
dapi-envars-fieldref
default
172.17.0.4
default
```

Pour comprendre pourquoi ces valeurs apparaissent dans les logs, regardez les champs `command` et `args` du fichier de configuration. Lorsque le container s'exécute, il écrit les valeurs de 5 variables d'environnement vers stdout, avec un interval de 10 secondes.

Ensuite, exécutez un shell à l'intérieur du container:

```shell
kubectl exec -it dapi-envars-fieldref -- sh
```

Dans ce shell, listez les variables d'environnement:

```shell
# À exécuter à l'intérieur du container
printenv
```

Le résultat doit montrer que certaines variables d'environnement contiennent 
les informations du Pod:

```
MY_POD_SERVICE_ACCOUNT=default
...
MY_POD_NAMESPACE=default
MY_POD_IP=172.17.0.4
...
MY_NODE_NAME=minikube
...
MY_POD_NAME=dapi-envars-fieldref
```

## Utiliser des informations du container comme variables d'environnement

Dans l'exercice précédent, vous avez utilisé les informations du Pod à
travers des variables d'environnement.
Dans cet exercice, vous allez faire passer des champs appartenant 
au [container](/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/workload-resources/pod-v1/#Container) 
qui est exécuté à l'intérieur du Pod. 

Voici un fichier de configuration pour un autre Pod qui ne contient qu'un seul 
container:


















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    <div class="includecode" id="pods-inject-dapi-envars-container-yaml"><div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-yaml" data-lang="yaml"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nt">apiVersion</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">v1</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nt">kind</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">Pod</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nt">metadata</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">  </span><span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">dapi-envars-resourcefieldref</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nt">spec</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">  </span><span class="nt">containers</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">    </span>- <span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">test-container</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">image</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">registry.k8s.io/busybox:1.24</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">command</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">[</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&#34;sh&#34;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&#34;-c&#34;</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">args</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">      </span>- <span class="l">while true; do</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="l">echo -en &#39;\n&#39;;</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="l">printenv MY_CPU_REQUEST MY_CPU_LIMIT;</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="l">printenv MY_MEM_REQUEST MY_MEM_LIMIT;</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="l">sleep 10;</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span><span class="l">done;</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">resources</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span><span class="nt">requests</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="nt">memory</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&#34;32Mi&#34;</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="nt">cpu</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&#34;125m&#34;</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span><span class="nt">limits</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="nt">memory</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&#34;64Mi&#34;</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="nt">cpu</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&#34;250m&#34;</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">      </span><span class="nt">env</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span>- <span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">MY_CPU_REQUEST</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="nt">valueFrom</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">            </span><span class="nt">resourceFieldRef</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">              </span><span class="nt">containerName</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">test-container</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">              </span><span class="nt">resource</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">requests.cpu</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span>- <span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">MY_CPU_LIMIT</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="nt">valueFrom</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">            </span><span class="nt">resourceFieldRef</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">              </span><span class="nt">containerName</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">test-container</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">              </span><span class="nt">resource</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">limits.cpu</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span>- <span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">MY_MEM_REQUEST</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="nt">valueFrom</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">            </span><span class="nt">resourceFieldRef</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">              </span><span class="nt">containerName</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">test-container</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">              </span><span class="nt">resource</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">requests.memory</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">        </span>- <span class="nt">name</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">MY_MEM_LIMIT</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">          </span><span class="nt">valueFrom</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">            </span><span class="nt">resourceFieldRef</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">              </span><span class="nt">containerName</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">test-container</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">              </span><span class="nt">resource</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">limits.memory</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="w">  </span><span class="nt">restartPolicy</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l">Never</span><span class="w">
</span></span></span></code></pre></div></div>
</div>

Dans ce fichier, vous pouvez voir 4 variables d'environnement.
Le champ `env` est une liste de variables d'environnement.
Le premier élément de la liste spécifie que la variable d'environnement `MY_CPU_REQUEST` aura sa valeur à partir du champ `requests.cpu` du container avec le nom `test-container`. Il en va de même pour les autres variables d'environnement, qui hériteront des champs du container qui sera exécuté.

Créez le Pod:

```shell
kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/pods/inject/dapi-envars-container.yaml
```

Vérifiez que le container dans le Pod fonctionne:

```shell
# Si le nouveau Pod n'est pas fonctionnel, re-exécutez cette commande plusieurs fois
kubectl get pods
```

Affichez les logs du container:

```shell
kubectl logs dapi-envars-resourcefieldref
```

Le résultat doit afficher les valeurs des variables selectionnées:

```
1
1
33554432
67108864
```

## A suivre


* Lire [Définir des variables d'environnement pour un Container](/docs/tasks/inject-data-application/define-environment-variable-container/)
* Lire la [`documentation de référence des Pod`](/docs/reference/kubernetes-api/workload-resources/pod-v1/#PodSpec).
  Elle inclut la documentation pour les containers.
* Lire la liste des [champs de configuration disponibles](/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/downward-api/#available-fields)
  qui peuvent être exposés via la downward API.

En savoir plus sur les pods, les containers et les variables d'environnement avec les documentations de référence:

* [PodSpec](/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.36/#podspec-v1-core)
* [Container](/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.36/#container-v1-core)
* [EnvVar](/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.36/#envvar-v1-core)
* [EnvVarSource](/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.36/#envvarsource-v1-core)
* [ObjectFieldSelector](/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.36/#objectfieldselector-v1-core)
* [ResourceFieldSelector](/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.36/#resourcefieldselector-v1-core)
