Environment Variables

Objective

SOAJS uses environment variables when deploying services and daemons.

These environment variables define some basic settings for the service and the environment that the service should be deployed in so that SOAJS load the corresponding settings.

Environment Variables

The path of the profile is set using an environment variable on your machine.

Env Variable	Default Value	Availability	Description
SOAJS_PROFILE	/opt/soajs/node_modules/soajs.core.modules/profiles/single.js	Supported in all versions	Location of the profile to use so that SOAJS can connect to the core database.
SOAJS_ENV	dev	Supported in all versions	The environment the service uses and registers itself under it upon start.
SOAJS_SRVIP	Machine's IP address	Supported in all versions	Optional environment variable used to specify which IP address to use if the machine has more than one active interface.
SOAJS_SOLO	false	Supported in all versions	Optional environment variable used to launch any service on top of SOAJS without the need of a database.
SOAJS_SRV_AUTOREGISTERHOST	true	Supported in all versions	Optional environment variable used in case a service should register itself or not.
SOAJS_DAEMON_GRP_CONF	N/A	Supported in all versions	Contains the name of the daemon group to use; available for daemons ONLY.
SOAJS_GC_NAME	N/A	No longer supported in version 2.x and above	Mandatory variable if deploying a GCS service and contains the name of that GCS service.
SOAJS_GC_VERSION	N/A	No longer supported in version 2.x and above	Mandatory variable if deploying a GCS service and contains the version of that GCS service.
SOAJS_GC_MAX_UPLOAD_LIMIT	2MB	No longer supported in version 2.x and above	Optional variable if deploying a GCS service that specifies the maximum upload limit of file sizes to accept.