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Adding New Environment Variables

Environment variables are parameterized by puppet, our infrastructure as code tool. Non-secret variables are defined in the puppet repo on frpm, while secrets are defined in both puppet and puppet-private repos.

puppet template files are files ending in .erb . when puppet is run, these files get written to the host without the .erb extension and any puppet variables are replaced with their parameterized values. E.g.

running puppet agent -tv will load the relevant variable or ...