Not that I know a lot about this project, but I think for the command executor we can use the `Environment` message. Perhaps we can extend the container info to have something similar?
> On 10 Mar 2016, at 12:50, Alex Rukletsov <a...@mesosphere.com> wrote: > > I have two questions. > > First, does this change include the executor library? We currently use > environment variables to propagate various config values from an agent to > executors. If it does, what is the alternative? > > Second, what will be the preferred way to pass config values to executors? It > would be great to be able to do it uniformly for non-HTTP and HTTP executors. > I can think of several possibilities: cmd flags, adding or overriding > protobufs, extending Executor interface. > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Gilbert Song <gilb...@mesosphere.io > <mailto:gilb...@mesosphere.io>> wrote: > Yes, `LIBPROCESS_IP` will be excepted from this change. We will still have > `LIBPROCESS_IP` set and passed to executors' environment, which is for the > case that DNS is not available on the slave. > > Gilbert > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Zhitao Li <zhitaoli...@gmail.com > <mailto:zhitaoli...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Is LIBPROCESS_IP going to be an exception to this? Some executors are using > this variable as an alternative of implementing their own IP detection logic > AFAIK so this behavior would break them. > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Gilbert Song <gilb...@mesosphere.io > <mailto:gilb...@mesosphere.io>> wrote: > Hi, > > TL;DR Executors will no longer inherit environment variables from the agent > by default in 0.30. > > Currently, executors are inheriting environment variables form the agent in > mesos containerizer by default. This is an unfortunate legacy behavior and is > insecure. If you do have environment variables that you want to pass to the > executors, you can set it explicitly by using the > `--executor_environment_variables` agent flag. > > Starting from 0.30, we will no longer allow executors to inherit environment > variables from the agent. In other words, `--executor_environment_variables` > will be set to “{}” by default. If you do depend on the original behavior, > please set `--executor_environment_variables` flag explicitly. > > Let us know if you have any comments or concerns. > > Thanks, > Gilbert > > > > -- > Cheers, > > Zhitao Li > >
