Tyk Environment Variables

You can use environment variables to override the config file settings for the Gateway, Dashboard and Pump. Environment variables are created from the dot notation versions of the JSON objects contained with the config files.

How to configure an Environment Variable

Step One - Convert the JSON to dot notation

"policies": {
    "policy_source": "service",
    "policy_connection_string": "http://tyk-dashboard:3000",
    "policy_record_name": "tyk_policies",
    "allow_explicit_policy_id": true
  }

When targeting the various keys, you need to use dot notation, so the above policies settings become:

policies.policy_source
policies.policy_connection_string
policies.policy_record_name
policies.allow_explicit_policy_id

Step Two - Convert the dot notation to environment variables

• Remember this is for the Gateway, so we have to add the TYK_GW_ prefix.
• Any underscores are removed.
• The dot notation is converted to underscores.
• The Environment variables are written in uppercase.

So:

policies.policy_source
policies.policy_connection_string
policies.policy_record_name
policies.allow_explicit_policy_id

Becomes:

TYK_GW_POLICIES_POLICYSOURCE
TYK_GW_POLICIES_POLICYCONNECTIONSTRING
TYK_GW_POLICIES_POLICYRECORDNAME
TYK_GW_POLICIES_ALLOWEXPLICITPOLICYID

Prefixes

• As above, Gateway environment variables require a TYK_GW_ prefix
• Dashboard environment variables require a TYK_DB_ prefix
• Pump environment variables require a TYK_PMP_ prefix
• MDCB environment variables require a TYK_MDCB_ prefix