Configuration

The Lieutenant API is configured via environment variables:

Environment Variable Description Default

API_HOST

API host to be used in generated Steward deployment manifests.

Host header of HTTP requests.

LIEUTENANT_INSTANCE

Name of the Lieutenant instance (for example dev, int, prod). This value will be set as fact on new clusters.

Empty

NAMESPACE

Namespace where the Kubernetes objects are stored.

default

K8S_AUTH_CLIENT_CACHE_SIZE

For each new API client (identified by the auth token), a Kubernetes client will be instantiated to pass through the request with the same token, which usually takes 2 seconds. The K8s client instance will be cached for subsequent API calls and this setting controls how many instances to keep in memory. The least-recently-used instances will be evicted from cache after reaching this limit.

Empty (uses internal hardcoded default value)

STEWARD_IMAGE

Image to use in generated Steward deployment manifests.

docker.io/projectsyn/steward:latest

DEFAULT_API_SECRET_REF_NAME

Name of a secret to be used as default for tenant’s APISecretRef.

Empty