Env vars in YML - only substituded with OS' ones

Installation
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Hi guys.
Is it possible to – I realize it’s yaml kind of question but thought experts here should know – substitute params/vars with OS’ (bash) own, at build time?
Say…
host: /APPOW/log/${HOSTNAME}/discourse.test
I thought, expected this would work out-of-box but it did not, for me. Thanks.

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Thanks. No, unless I’ve gone blind, temporarily - possible - does not cover my question. Does it?
I’m talking about OS’ env vars, shell variables which in YAML would resolve the their values – again, set in host’s shell (does not exist in .yml)

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No.

You can set them at launch time, but not build time.

What are you trying to accomplish that you think replacing ENV in yaml at build time will accomplish?

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These little tweaks are little saviours when scalling up, if only a bit.
That example above should be most telling – with no need to “fix” it in the yaml each time I build in different env / different host.
I sroogled and I see examples which claim that such simple substitution should work for YAML, but I can not get it to work.

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I don’t believe that launcher will replace those ENV variables. It’s possible to build an image and then launch the same image multiple times with different domain names. You can

./launcher start-cmd app

To see what ENV is needed to launch.

To do it with a host that hasn’t bootstrapped, you’ll need to migrate the database and precompile assets.

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That’d surely be very nice enhancement to future launcher versions, if it did.