From be5303c19ac4e362ee9ae8736b6e031ca1504478 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Razin Idzuddin <razin99@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 22:27:57 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] add example to use environment parameters

---
 packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-ec2/README.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-ec2/README.md b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-ec2/README.md
index 24fb39b3605c0..bf96ae34c7c4f 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-ec2/README.md
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-ec2/README.md
@@ -1426,6 +1426,22 @@ ec2.CloudFormationInit.fromElements(
 );
 ```
 
+If your services require environment variables, you can use the `environmentVariables` or `environmentFiles`
+parameter to do so:
+```ts
+new ec2.InitConfig([
+  ec2.InitFile.fromString('/myvars.env', 'VAR_FROM_FILE="VAR_FROM_FILE"'),
+  ec2.InitService.systemdConfigFile('myapp', {
+    command: '/usr/bin/python3 -m http.server 8080',
+    cwd: '/var/www/html',
+    environmentVariables: {
+      MY_VAR: 'MY_VAR',
+    },
+    environmentFiles: ['/myvars.env'],
+  }),
+])
+```
+
 ### Bastion Hosts
 
 A bastion host functions as an instance used to access servers and resources in a VPC without open up the complete VPC on a network level.