Hi Till, Yes, System.getenv() was the first thing I tried. It'd be great if someone else can reproduce the issue, but for now I'll submit a JIRA with the assumption that it really is not working right. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-5322
-Shannon From: Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org<mailto:trohrm...@apache.org>> Date: Monday, December 12, 2016 at 7:21 AM To: <user@flink.apache.org<mailto:user@flink.apache.org>> Subject: Re: How to retrieve values from yarn.taskmanager.env in a Job? Hi Shannon, have you tried accessing the environment variables via System.getenv()? This should give you a map of string-string key value pairs where the key is the environment variable name. If your values are not set in the returned map, then this indicates a bug in Flink and it would be great if you could open a JIRA issue. Cheers, Till ​ On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Shannon Carey <sca...@expedia.com<mailto:sca...@expedia.com>> wrote: This thread http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/passing-environment-variables-to-flink-program-td3337.html describes the impetus for the addition of yarn.taskmanager.env. I have configured a value within yarn.taskmanager.env, and I see it appearing in the Flink web UI in the list underneath Job Manager -> Configuration. However, I can't figure out how to retrieve the value from within a Flink job. It doesn't appear in the environment, the system properties, or my ParameterTool instance, and I can't figure out how I would get to it via the StreamExecutionEnvironment. Can anyone point me in the right direction? All I want to do is inform my Flink jobs which environment they're running on, so that programmers don't have to specify the environment as a job parameter every time they run it. I also see that there is a "env.java.opts" configuration… does that work in YARN apps (would my jobs be able to see it?) Thanks! Shannon