---------------------- Yes, you can change the ternary operator to an if/else conditional in Garden. Here's how you can do it:

yaml
spec:
  image: 
    $if: "${local.env.GARDEN_DEV_SERVICE == 'gateway'}"
    $then: "${var.registryRoot + '/api-gateway:latest'}"
    $else: "${actions.build.gateway.outputs.deploymentImageId}"

This sets

spec.image

to

${var.registryRoot + '/api-gateway:latest'}

when the

GARDEN_DEV_SERVICE

environment variable is set to 'gateway', otherwise it sets

spec.image

to

${actions.build.gateway.outputs.deploymentImageId}

. However, if

GARDEN_DEV_SERVICE

is not provided at all, Garden will still throw an error. To avoid this, you can use the

local.env.<env-var-name>

syntax to check if the environment variable exists before using it in a condition. Unfortunately, the extracts provided do not contain information on how to do this. For more information on using if/else conditionals and environment variables in Garden, you can refer to the Variables and Templating () section of the Garden documentation. ---------------------- Note: you can ask me a follow up question by @ mentioning me again :speech_balloon: ----------------------

Let me check the knowledge base for you. One moment! :books:

But I'll try all of these.

@flat-state-47578 if you can 👎 and mention @few-fish-16423 in any answers where you've noticed hallucinations that would be helpful. I can also take a look

In this case, I'm just using kapa to expand on what I know. Optional values and if/else conditionals are both in the docs at https://docs.garden.io/using-garden/variables-and-templating#optional-values if you wanted to cross-reference

@few-fish-16423 I don't believe this

?

syntax is valid:

Invalid template string (${{local.env.GARDEN_DEV_SERVICE? =…): Unable to parse as valid template string.