Environment Variables

Variable Management

Building on the capability of CNC variables, Coherence adds a UI for team members to easily manage and view variables in environments based on their RBAC permissions.

The UI makes it easy to manage all 4 types of supported variables, at either the Collection or Environment level.

Environment Inheritance

There are 2 places that you can configure variables in the Coherence UI:

• The "Variables" tab in each Collection: these variables will be inherited by all environments in that cloud project (for example the variables in the "Preview" project will be available in all Branch Previews by default)
• The Environment's Variables tab: these will only apply to the environment they are configured on. You can also override inherited variables using the ... menu

Coherence Managed Variables

In addition to variables you supply, in each environment you can view the cnc and coherence provided variables for your app, based on your configuration and settings. These include resource variables like DATABASE_URL or REDIS_URL as well as informational variables like CNC_ENVIRONMENT_NAME. Read more at cnc.

Build Args for Docker Builds

All environment variables that apply to a service will be added as build-arg's (docs) to the docker build command for that service's container.

• As per the docker docs, you'll need to add the ARG commands to your dockerfile for them to be made available in your build.