Is it possible to override uwsgi ini-file with environment variables

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I'm trying to build a "base" docker image for running a python framework with uwsgi. The goal is to have others build their own docker images where they dump their application logic and any configuration overrides they need.

I thought it might be nice to be able to override any default settings from a uwsgi.ini file by supplying UWSGI_* environment variables passed to uwsgi at startup.

I've tried this approach, and setting a value via env var works if it's not in the ini-file at all (e.g UWSGI_WORKERS=4). But if I put a workers=1 line in the ini-file, it seems to override the env var.

Is this expected behaviour? I'm having trouble finding anything about config resolution order in the docs. Do I have to resort to something like this? Using env vars seems so much cleaner.

if-exists = ./override.ini
include = %(_)
endif =
uwsgi python
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First, make all environment variables in the .ini file refer to the environment variables like below:

[uwsgi]
http = $(HTTP_PORT)
processes = $(UWSGI_WORKERS)
threads = $(UWSGI_THREADS)
...

Then set whatever default values you want for these environment variables inside the Dockerfile.

Now, anyone using your base image can overwrite any config by setting the specific env variable.

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