There are environment variables that are required to be set in order to run tests and to run the server in general. Please set up these environment variables either in your shell or on the command line.
We use a specific implementation of environment variables that are accessible to the applications' cloud.gov-deployed environment through a variable called VCAP_SERVICES. We use these as opposed to regular environment variables for two reasons: 1) our zero-downtime deployment wipes any enviornment set on cf env with each deployment and 2) allow us to keep our environment variables outside of our open version control.
These services are individually defined and must be bound to the application via the manifests located in the .cg-deploy directory. The services are set as user-provided-services and available at the space level within cloud.gov, but the bindings are application specific. I.e. a service would need to be bound to both the server and the frontend to be available to both. This environment variable is provided as an object and parsed in the server/vcap-constants.es6. These services also include access keys to the s3 bucket and ci deployer keys.
These services are defined in the Forest Service Cloud Migration Repository.
To emulate the deployed environment variables we provide a list of local VCAP_SERVICES that will be automattically pulled in.
The following environment variables are required to run the application locally, in CI, or with docker:
To set aws credentials for the purpose of connecting an s3 bucket. In order to pass end to end tests locally or on CircleCI, you must include valid s3 credentials in the AWS_CONFIG variable.
{"s3":[{"credentials":{"bucket":"","access_key_id":"","region":"us-east-1","secret_access_key":""},"label":"s3","name":"intake-s3"}]}
If AWS_CONFIG is not set, system will use the json file here
(from https://snyk.io/account)
(optional) This variable can be used to connect to a different database.
postgres://<user>:<pass>@localhost:<port>/<dbname>
(optional) This variable can be used to override the uri used for the application.
{"uris":["http://localhost:8080"]}
To override the default VCAP_SERVICES that are configured for local development and CI.
(optional) Provide the absolute path to a specific chromedriver binary to use when running e2e tests locally.
The following environment variables are required for staging and production. In general, these will be set within cloud.gov as user-provided-services
VCAP_SERVICES
DATABASE_URL
VCAP_APPLICATION