How do you pass custom environment variable on Amazon Elastic Beanstalk AWS EBS

Question

The Amazon Elastic Beanstalk blurb says:

Elastic Beanstalk lets you "open the hood" and retain full control ... even pass environment variables through the Elastic Beanstalk console.

http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/

How to pass other environment variables besides the one in the Elastic Beanstalk configuration?

Answer 1

Old way  - use .ebextensions/*.config in AWS CLI and modify the file that has environment variables . Or you can add, edit and remove environment variables in the Elastic Beanstalk web interface.

The variables are under Configuration → Software Configuration: