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[jira] [Commented] (FLUME-2993) Support environment variables in configuration files

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2993?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15493941#comment-15493941 ] 

Bessenyei Balázs Donát commented on FLUME-2993:
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I have created and linked a reviewboard entry.

> Support environment variables in configuration files
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLUME-2993
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2993
>             Project: Flume
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Configuration
>            Reporter: Bessenyei Balázs Donát
>            Assignee: Bessenyei Balázs Donát
>             Fix For: v1.7.0
>
>
> Flume does not currently support environment variable interpolation in the properties file configuration.
> Enabling it would help with
> * removing security credentials from config files
> * help with copy-pastes in configuration files with multiple agents defined
> It is arguably a best practice to store (some) config in the environment variables: https://12factor.net/config 



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