How to set arbitrary environment variables for service containers?

[kumpulak]

Many of the supported services use environment variables for further configuration. For example you can run harbor ollama serve -h to see variables for Ollama. I was looking for a way to set the OLLAMA_DEBUG to 1.

I tried to use harbor config set ollama.debug 1 and while it creates the correct looking variable to the harbor config list, but inside the ollama container it has HARBOR_ prefix and thus ollama does not use it.

[av]

Kudos on trying the config command for that, indeed it's intended for options that Harbor controls directly.

For arbitrary env vars, see this section in the User guide:
https://github.com/av/harbor/wiki/1.-Harbor-User-Guide#using-configuration-files

You can add them to the .env, there are a few examples there already. Alternatively, target service might have override.env in its workspace dir to add variables that are scoped to it.

[av]

Closing this for now. Feel free to follow up or open a new issue if needed.