Add a new method to get config from environment variables
and for now, we have three ways to get config and the
priority is `env-var > custom-config-file > built-in-config-file`.
Environment config setting does not work in CLI, because it will
confuse users when they get config value is `var-env` but value
in the configuration file is `var-in-file`, they may not find
the way how to change it
* Add documentation
* Add it to UPDATING.md
close: #8344
Jiajie Zhong