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Setting Environment Variables and Secrets

Zipup Cloud provides a simple way to configure environment variables and secrets for each application.

Scope​

  • Environment variables and secrets are set per application
  • Each app manages its own configuration independently

How They Work​

  • Both environment variables and secrets are exposed to your app as standard environment variables
  • Your application can access them using process.env
  • Secrets are encrypted at rest
  • Environment variables are stored as plain text.
  • Changes are not reflected in running instances automatically
note

Any updates to environment variables or secrets require a restart or redeployment of the application

Managing Variables​

To configure environment variables or secrets:

  1. In the sidebar select Web Apps
  2. Choose your application
  3. Navigate to:
    • Env Variables tab to add/edit environment variables
    • Secrets tab to add/edit sensitive values

Summary​

  • Per-app configuration
  • Same access pattern (process.env)
  • Secrets are encrypted
  • Restart required after changes

This keeps configuration simple, explicit, and easy to reason about.