Configuration

Configuration properties are passed to the application as environment variables configured for the container. How you configure this depends on your container runtime.

Arcae Properties

Property	Type	Default	Description
EXTERNAL_HOST	URI	http://localhost:8080	The public URI used to access the frontend. Is used for generating URLs
DATABASE_URL	URI	jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/arcae	The JDBC connection string for the database
DATABASE_USERNAME	string	arcae	The username of the database user
DATABASE_PASSWORD	string	12345	The password of the database password
SEARCH_HOSTS	hostnames	localhost:9200	A comma-separated list of Elasticsearch hosts
ARCAE_DISTRIBUTED	boolean	true	Enables the distributed environment mode, if a kubernetes environment is detected
ARCAE_SEARCH_ENABLED	boolean	true	Enables Elasticsearch, database queries will be used for search if disabled
ARCAE_MANAGEMENT_PORT	port	8081	The port to be used for the internal management interface, only available for distributed deployments
ARCAE_DISCOVERY_SELECTOR_JOBS	label selector	app.kubernetes.io/name=arcae	A comma-separated list of label value pairs, used to select pods for job scheduling (managed by the helm chart)
ARCAE_DISCOVERY_SELECTOR_API	label selector	app.kubernetes.io/name=arcae	A comma-separated list of label value pairs, used to select pods for internal API to API communication (managed by the helm chart)

Other properties

There are more configuration properties provided by third party libraries that can be found on their respective documentation pages.

• Hibernate / Database stuff
• Hibernate Search ORM / Elasticsearch stuff