[jira] [Created] (MESOS-7429) Allow isolators to inject task-specific environment variables.

["Till Toenshoff (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Till Toenshoff created MESOS-7429:
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             Summary: Allow isolators to inject task-specific environment variables.
                 Key: MESOS-7429
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-7429
             Project: Mesos
          Issue Type: Improvement
    Affects Versions: 1.2.0
            Reporter: Till Toenshoff


For command tasks, we currently have no way for isolators to inject task specific environments into data path.

Isolators in their {{prepare}} implementation can return a {{ContainerLaunchInfo}} which currently supports setting the member {{environment}} - but that is effective for the executor already and will get inherited by the task environment.

Given that the command-executor is active in the host-fs context but the task may be running in a container-fs context ({{has_rootfs=true}}), using the above will possibly cause failures, depending on the nature of the variables set -- consider e.g. {{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}} as a fatal one.

The command-executor does support the flag {{task_environment}} to receive environment variables which are meant exclusively for the task itself but not the executor.

Runtime isolators (docker/runtime, appc/runtime) already make use of this flag. However, they do it in a way that is a bit unfortunate as it does not allow for other isolators to make use of it - there is no merging taking place in the containerizer.



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