Override ENV variable of docker image (Circleci 2.0)

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The docker image circleci/node:8 exposes the environment variable YARN_VERSION to set a specific yarn version. When I set the version in the environment map, it’s not picked up by the docker image:

version: 2
jobs:
build:
docker:
- image: circleci/node:8
environment:
YARN_VERSION: 1.9.4
steps:
- run: echo $YARN_VERSION
- run: yarn –version

Outputs:

====>> echo $YARN_VERSION
#!/bin/bash -eo pipefail
echo $YARN_VERSION
1.9.4
====>> yarn --version
#!/bin/bash -eo pipefail
yarn --version
1.6.0

The question is how to pass the environment variable to docker?

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So I am mistaking build environments vs runtime environments. So please ignore this post.

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Tips:

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Thanks for the tips. The ui says I don’t have permissions to remove the post (that’s why I replied to my own post).

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@tkvw Can you clarify the final solution by providing your updated YML config?

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@rtymchyk: it’s more of a conceptual understanding than a solution. The image is build using a specific YARN_VERSION, so altering the yarn version doesn’t do much. There are two things you can do:
create a custom docker image or create a run command script which downloads yarn and cache this.

The latter is some work, but should be straight forward (you can copy the commands from the node js dockerfile).

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Makes sense. Thanks for the reply.

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