id: container-env-variables
name: Container Environment Variables
full-link: /docs/concepts/containers/container-environment-variables.md
tags:
- fundamental
short-description: >
  Container environment variables are name/value pairs that provide useful information into containers running in a Pod.
long-description: >
  Container environment variables provide information that is required by the running containerized applications along with information about important resources to the [Containers] {% glossary_tooltip text="Containers" term_id="container" %}. For example, file system, information about the container itself and other cluster resources such as service endpoints, etc.
