Environment variables in config

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This is a pretty basic question, sorry – no kubernetes experience before using Istio.

Can you use environment variables like $VAR_NAME inside your config for Istio items like VirtualService etc.? e.g. as mentioned here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/inject-data-application/define-environment-variable-container/#using-environment-variables-inside-of-your-config

Is that what the $PROXY_IP and $PROXY_PORT are in this example? https://istio.io/latest/docs/tasks/traffic-management/egress/http-proxy/#configure-traffic-to-external-https-proxy

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No, in their examples they will be expanded by the shell before they are applied to kubernetes

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Ok, thanks @howardjohn.