Merge pull request #1576 from xh3b4sd/etcd-addr-env

Etcd addr env

physical/etcd.go

@@ -89,6 +89,10 @@ func newEtcdBackend(conf map[string]string, logger *log.Logger) (Backend, error)
 	if address, ok := conf["address"]; ok {
 		machines = address
 	}
+	machinesEnv := os.Getenv("ETCD_ADDR")
+	if machinesEnv != "" {
+		machines = machinesEnv
+	}
 	machinesParsed := strings.Split(machines, EtcdMachineDelimiter)
 
 	// Verify that the machines are valid URLs

physical/etcd_test.go

@@ -46,10 +46,11 @@ func TestEtcdBackend(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}()
 
+	// Generate new etcd backend. The etcd address is read from ETCD_ADDR. No
+	// need to provide it explicitly.
 	logger := log.New(os.Stderr, "", log.LstdFlags)
 	b, err := NewBackend("etcd", logger, map[string]string{
-		"address": addr,
-		"path":    randPath,
+		"path": randPath,
 	})
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("err: %s", err)

website/source/docs/commands/environment.html.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ description: |-
 # Environment variables
 
 The Vault CLI will read the following environment variables to set
-behavioral defaults.  These can be overridden in all cases using
+behavioral defaults. These can be overridden in all cases using
 command-line arguments; see the command-line help for details.
 
 The following table describes them:

website/source/docs/config/index.html.md

@@ -331,7 +331,8 @@ For etcd, the following options are supported:
 
   * `address` (optional) - The address(es) of the etcd instance(s) to talk to.
     Can be comma separated list (protocol://host:port) of many etcd instances.
-    Defaults to "http://localhost:2379" if not specified.
+    Defaults to "http://localhost:2379" if not specified. May also be specified
+    via the ETCD_ADDR environment variable.
 
   * `sync` (optional) - Should we synchronize the list of available etcd
     servers on startup?  This is a **string** value to allow for auto-sync to