Error when running 'docker-compose up zen' after a clean setup_repo.sh & install_deps.sh run

[pbackx]

Maybe important or not: This is on Windows 10. I'm running Ubuntu with the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

After successfully running the initial steps in the readme, I have the following error when running docker-compose zen up:

ERROR: In file C:\dev\cp-local-development\workspace-zen\cp-zen-platform\web\config\development.env: environment variable name 'export EVENTS_SERVICE' may not contains whitespace.

That file contains the following lines:

export EVENTS_SERVICE=events2
export EMAIL_SERVICE=email
export USERS_SERVICE=users
export CLUBS_SERVICE=clubs

After removing the exports in front of the variable definitions, it looks like the system is now starting.

So what I did to fix this is change the file to:

EVENTS_SERVICE=events2
EMAIL_SERVICE=email
USERS_SERVICE=users
CLUBS_SERVICE=clubs

So my questions:

• I don't think this is related to Windows, but is an actual error in the file: https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/#env_file
• Can I create a PR for cp-zen-platform to remove those exports? Or is there a good reason they are there?
  https://github.com/CoderDojo/cp-zen-platform/blob/master/web/config/development.env

[Wardormeur]

I can confirm the issue on Linux, this is not a Windows related issue, but a dodgy change in docker-compose (docker/compose#6511). The fix seems to use a new upcoming flag --skip-env-file when running docker-compose.
As far as I'm aware, those env var are only used for the unit tests of cp-zen-platform, locally and in CI. Didn't try if removing the "export" keyword works or not, though.
👍 for making a formal report