Overriding Global Variables – AWS SAM Local

Hi everyone,

Today I’ve added local overrides to the global variables in my template.yml file. This was pretty finicky – a lot of conflicting suggestions out there unfortunately. These are the settings that ended up working for me.

local-env-var-overrides.json:

{
    "Parameters": {
        "RDS_HOSTNAME_TEST": "192.168.0.31"
    }
}

template.yaml

Globals:
  Function:
    Environment:
      Variables:        
        RDS_HOSTNAME_TEST:
          Type: String
          Default: 'DEFAULT'

aws sam local command:

sam local start-api --env-vars "local-env-var-overrides.json"

create.js

exports.createTrapHandler = async (event, context, callback) => {

	try {

        console.log("RDS_HOSTNAME_TEST: " + process.env.RDS_HOSTNAME_TEST)
        // Outputs: 192.168.0.31

This link ended up being pretty useful: https://www.npmjs.com/package/aws-sam-local