Introduction

Pulp uses dynaconf for its settings which allows you to configure Pulp settings using various ways:

• Environment Variables <env-var-settings> - Enabled by default.
• Configuration File <config-file-settings> - Disabled by default, but easy to enable.

Available Settings

For a comprehensive list of core settings, refer to the Settings Reference.

Plugin-specific settings are typically located in the corresponding Admin/Reference section

Deployment-specific instructions

For specialized instruction on how to edit/set files and environment, check the guide appropriate to your deployment option:

• Container (single-process) quickstart
• Container (multi-process) quickstart
• Pulp Operator quickstart

Configure

Through Environment Variables

Configuration by specifying environment variables is enabled by default. Any Setting can be configured using Dynaconf by prepending PULP_ to the setting name. For example SECRET_KEY <secret-key-setting> can be specified as the PULP_SECRET_KEY environment variable. For example, in a shell you can use export to set this:

export PULP_SECRET_KEY="This should be a 50 chars or longer unique secret!"

Through Configuration File

By default, Pulp does not read settings from a configuration file. Enable this by specifying the PULP_SETTINGS environment variable with the path to your configuration file. For example:

export PULP_SETTINGS=/etc/pulp/settings.py

Then you can specify settings with Python variable assignment in the /etc/pulp/settings.py. For example, you can specify SECRET_KEY <secret-key-setting> with:

$ cat /etc/pulp/settings.py
SECRET_KEY="This should be a 50 chars or longer unique secret!"

In this example the settings file ends in ".py" so it needs to be valid Python, but it could use any dynaconf supported format.

Note

The configuration file and directories containing the configuration file must be readable by the user Pulp runs as. If using SELinux, assign the system_u:object_r:pulpcore_etc_t:s0 label.

View Settings

To view the effective settings on a Pulp installation you can use dynaconf commands. Refer to the cli help for detailed usage instructions:

• dynaconf list: List all effective settings
• dynaconf get -k <settings>: Show value for a given key
• dynaconf inspect -k <setting>: Show debug info for a given key (e.g, load history)

For dynaconf to work, it'a required to set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE to the django settings module location. E.g, export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=pulpcore.app.settings.

The installations provided by Pulp will usually have that already set by default.

Note

Settings can come from both settings file and environment variables. When running the dynaconf list command, be sure you have the same environment variables set as your Pulp installation.