How to set environment variables for docker daemon on Debian linux?

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Can someone please advise how to pass the environment variable to docker daemon? I’m trying to setup the AWS logging driver and I need to pass the access key and the secret key. I tried to setup following in the “/etc/default/docker” file and restarting the docker

export AWS_REGION=***
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=****
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=***

But I keep getting the error “Failed to initialize logging driver: failed to create Cloudwatch log stream: NoCredentialProviders: no valid providers in chain”

I also don’t see the option to pass the environment variables in “daemon.json” file too. I can’t use AWS EC2 IAM profile because my host is not in AWS.

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Solution documented here: Pass Credentials to the awslogs Docker Logging Driver on Ubuntu · Wouter Dullaert works for me.