Cant pass env variables to boxfuse

[georgebenyeogor]

I'm trying to fuse a CloudCaptain image and run it locally on VirtualBox, but I keep running into issues. At first, I had to tweak my application.yml file and move passwords and secrets that were in my application-dev.yml and application-prod.yml into it. Now, it wont run because it doesn't have access to .env files. I'm trying to pass the variables in using -envvars but get this error:
ERROR: Invalid Boxfuse configuration settings: envvars
When I drop the '-', it starts, but I still don't have access to the .env variables:
Caused by: io.github.cdimascio.dotenv.DotenvException: Could not find /.env on the classpath

[axelfontaine]

What does your complete Boxfuse command look like?

[georgebenyeogor]

Thank you for the response Axel. I realized I didn't give you very much context about my problem, so I will do that now.
My file structure:
file_structure.txt

I call this command in vscode and it creates the jar file in targets/
./mvnw -Pprod -DskipTests package

Then, in powershell, I call this when Im at the SpotShare directory to fuse the application into a CloudCaptain image and launch an instance of it on VirtualBox:
boxfuse run

Now, when i first ran it without adding anything new to my application.yml and pom.xml file, I ran the command to create the jar file, then ran the command to fuse it. That raised this error:
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder 'jhipster.security.authentication.jwt.base64-secret' in value "${jhipster.security.authentication.jwt.base64-secret}"

I copied over the secrets for jwt and the username/url/password for my online db from application-prod.yml to application.yml. i then changed the version, and re ran the same commands. then i get this error:

full_trace.txt

After this, I put this in my pom.xml file to make sure it copies the .env file into the jar file.

${basedir}

.env

app

I also call this in vscode to check wether the env file was uploaded:
jar tf target/spot-share-1.0.2.jar | findstr "app/.env"

it returns this:
BOOT-INF/classes/app/.env

Meaning it stored the env file in the jar

I also added this code for debugging:
public GoogleMapsService() {
this.webClient = WebClient.builder().baseUrl("https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api").build();
System.out.println("Class Path: " +System.getProperty("java.class.path"));
System.out.println("Working Directory: " + System.getProperty("user.dir"));

    Dotenv dotenv = Dotenv.load();
    this.apiKey = dotenv.get("GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY");
}

Then I changed the version, and re ran the same commands, and got this:

full_trace2.txt

I know this is a lot, but any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm also down to hop on a call to go more in depth if this doesn't show you the problem. Thanks!

[georgebenyeogor]

Ok, so after doing all of that, I started to get the environment variables from that directory:
Dotenv dotenv = Dotenv.configure().directory("/BOOT-INF/classes/app").filename(".env").load();
this.apiKey = dotenv.get("GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY");
After doing this, I was able to go through all the steps of deploying, but now, my front end isnt working. When I run it loacally, my main page looks like this:

Screen.Recording.2025-01-16.124026.mp4

But the deployed version looks like this (ps, i had to go through and change the ports to 8081 for it to run):

[georgebenyeogor]

After more research, my problem boils down to this: how can i run my front end with this configuration?

[axelfontaine]

@georgebenyeogor Here is how you can pass environment variables using the Maven plugin: https://cloudcaptain.sh/docs/maven/run#envvars (see also example at the bottom of that page)

For your frontend, I am afraid you'll have to investigate. It could be a networking issue. Either way it may be better to skip VirtualBox and go straight to the test environment on AWS where it's easier to tweak the security group if needed.