Alex,
See my response inlined:
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?
Any environment variables generated by Mesos (i.e., MESOS_, LIBPROCESS_)
will not be affected.
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.
You can always use the Environments in ExecutorInfo.CommandInfo or
TaskInfo.CommandInfo to pass in environment variables to executors/tasks.
- Jie
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 3:50 AM, 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>
> 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> 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>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
>
