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Loading environment variables

imgproxy can load environment variables from various sources such as:

Local file​

You can create an environment file and configure imgproxy to read environment variables from it.

  • IMGPROXY_ENV_LOCAL_FILE_PATH: the path of the environment file to load

AWS Secrets Manager​

You can store the content of an environment file as an AWS Secrets Manager secret and configure imgproxy to read environment variables from it.

  • IMGPROXY_ENV_AWS_SECRET_ID: the ARN or name of the secret to load
  • IMGPROXY_ENV_AWS_SECRET_VERSION_ID: (optional) the unique identifier of the version of the secret to load
  • IMGPROXY_ENV_AWS_SECRET_VERSION_STAGE: (optional) the staging label of the version of the secret to load
  • IMGPROXY_ENV_AWS_SECRET_REGION: (optional) the region of the secret to load
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If both IMGPROXY_ENV_AWS_SECRET_VERSION_ID and IMGPROXY_ENV_AWS_SECRET_VERSION_STAGE are set, IMGPROXY_ENV_AWS_SECRET_VERSION_STAGE will be ignored

Set up AWS Secrets Manager credentials​

There are three ways to specify your AWS credentials. The credentials policy should allow performing the secretsmanager:GetSecretValue and secretsmanager:ListSecretVersionIds actions with the specified secret:

IAM Roles​

If you're running imgproxy on an Amazon Web Services platform, you can use IAM roles to to get the security credentials to retrieve the secret.

Environment variables​

You can specify an AWS Access Key ID and a Secret Access Key by setting the standard AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables.

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=my_access_key AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=my_secret_key imgproxy

# same for Docker
docker run -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=my_access_key -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=my_secret_key -it ghcr.io/imgproxy/imgproxy

Shared credentials file​

Alternatively, you can create the .aws/credentials file in your home directory with the following content:

[default]
aws_access_key_id = %access_key_id
aws_secret_access_key = %secret_access_key

AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store​

You can store multiple AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store entries and configure imgproxy to load their values to separate environment variables.

  • IMGPROXY_ENV_AWS_SSM_PARAMETERS_PATH: the path of the parameters to load
  • IMGPROXY_ENV_AWS_SSM_PARAMETERS_REGION: (optional) the region of the parameters to load

AWS Systems Manager path​

Let's assume that you created the following AWS Systems Manager parameters:

  • /imgproxy/prod/IMGPROXY_KEY
  • /imgproxy/prod/IMGPROXY_SALT
  • /imgproxy/prod/IMGPROXY_CLOUD_WATCH/SERVICE_NAME
  • /imgproxy/prod/IMGPROXY_CLOUD_WATCH/NAMESPACE
  • /imgproxy/staging/IMGPROXY_KEY

If you set IMGPROXY_ENV_AWS_SSM_PARAMETERS_PATH to /imgproxy/prod, imgproxy will load these parameters the following way:

  • /imgproxy/prod/IMGPROXY_KEY value will be loaded to IMGPROXY_KEY
  • /imgproxy/prod/IMGPROXY_SALT value will be loaded to IMGPROXY_SALT
  • /imgproxy/prod/IMGPROXY_CLOUD_WATCH/SERVICE_NAME value will be loaded to IMGPROXY_CLOUD_WATCH_SERVICE_NAME
  • /imgproxy/prod/IMGPROXY_CLOUD_WATCH/NAMESPACE value will be loaded to IMGPROXY_CLOUD_WATCH_NAMESPACE
  • /imgproxy/staging/IMGPROXY_KEY will be ignored since its path is not /imgproxy/prod

Set up AWS Systems Manager credentials​

There are three ways to specify your AWS credentials. The credentials policy should allow performing the ssm:GetParametersByPath action with the specified parameters:

IAM Roles​

If you're running imgproxy on an Amazon Web Services platform, you can use IAM roles to to get the security credentials to retrieve the secret.

Environment variables​

You can specify an AWS Access Key ID and a Secret Access Key by setting the standard AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables.

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=my_access_key AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=my_secret_key imgproxy

# same for Docker
docker run -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=my_access_key -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=my_secret_key -it ghcr.io/imgproxy/imgproxy

Shared credentials file​

Alternatively, you can create the .aws/credentials file in your home directory with the following content:

[default]
aws_access_key_id = %access_key_id
aws_secret_access_key = %secret_access_key

Google Cloud Secret Manager​

You can store the content of an environment file in Google Cloud Secret Manager secret and configure imgproxy to read environment variables from it.

  • IMGPROXY_ENV_GCP_SECRET_ID: the name of the secret to load
  • IMGPROXY_ENV_GCP_SECRET_VERSION_ID: (optional) the unique identifier of the version of the secret to load
  • IMGPROXY_ENV_GCP_SECRET_PROJECT_ID: the name or ID of the Google Cloud project that contains the secret

Setup credentials​

If you run imgproxy inside Google Cloud infrastructure (Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, App Engine, Cloud Functions, etc), and you have granted access to the specified secret to the service account, you probably don't need to do anything here. imgproxy will try to use the credentials provided by Google.

Otherwise, set IMGPROXY_ENV_GCP_KEY environment variable to the content of Google Cloud JSON key. Get more info about JSON keys: https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/creating-managing-service-account-keys.

Environment file syntax​

The following syntax rules apply to environment files:

  • Blank lines are ignored
  • Lines beginning with # are processed as comments and ignored
  • Each line represents a key-value pair. Values can optionally be quoted:
    • VAR=VAL -> VAL
    • VAR="VAL" -> VAL
    • VAR='VAL' -> VAL
  • Unquoted and double-quoted (") values have variable substitution applied:
    • VAR=${OTHER_VAR} -> value of OTHER_VAR
    • VAR=$OTHER_VAR -> value of OTHER_VAR
    • VAR="$OTHER_VAR" -> value of OTHER_VAR
    • VAR="${OTHER_VAR}" -> value of OTHER_VAR
  • Single-quoted (') values are used literally:
    • VAR='$OTHER_VAR' -> $OTHER_VAR
    • VAR='${OTHER_VAR}' -> ${OTHER_VAR}
  • Double quotes in double-quoted (") values can be escaped with \:
    • VAR="{\"hello\": \"json\"}" -> {"hello": "json"}
  • Slash (\) in double-quoted values can be escaped with another slash:
    • VAR="some\\value" -> some\value
  • A new line can be added to double-quoted values using \n:

    • VAR="some\nvalue" ->

      some
      value