I have read the documentation concerning falling back to environment variables at https://github.com/typesafehub/config/blob/master/HOCON.md#substitution-fallback-to-environment-variables. My understanding was that it would pickup any envars. So for instance, if from the shell I was able to do echo $HOSTNAME and see a non-empty response then HOCON should do that as well.
In my application.conf I have a line
akka.remote.netty.tcp.hostname = ${HOSTNAME}
However, my app is not happy with this and fails to start with.
/conf/application.conf: 9: Could not resolve substitution to a value: ${HOSTNAME}
Is this a user issue? A shell issue? I am able to login as the user and echo $HOSTNAME
Tagging this scala and akka since that userbase probably has the most exposure to HOCON