Deploy variables

The following deploy variables control actions in the deploy phase and can inherit and override values from the Global variables. Insert these variables in the deploy stage of the .magento.env.yaml file:

stage:
  deploy:
    DEPLOY_VARIABLE_NAME: value

For more information about customizing the build and deploy process:

• Deployment configuration
• Deployment process

CACHE_CONFIGURATION

• Default—Not set
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.1.4 and later

Configure Redis page and default caching. When setting the cm_cache_backend_redis parameter, you must specify the server, port, and database options.

stage:
  deploy:
    CACHE_CONFIGURATION:
      frontend:
        default:
          backend: file
        page_cache:
          backend: file

By default, the deployment process overwrites all settings in the env.php file; however, you can choose to merge one or more values for a service configuration without overwriting all values.

Set the _merge option to one of the following:

• true—Merge the configured service values with the environment variable values.
• false—Overwrite the configured service values with the environment variable values.

The following example merges new values to an existing configuration:

stage:
  deploy:
    CACHE_CONFIGURATION:
      _merge: true
      frontend:
        default:
          backend_options:
            database: 10
        page_cache:
          backend_options:
            database: 11

The following example uses the Redis preload feature as defined in the Configuration guide:

stage:
  deploy:
    CACHE_CONFIGURATION:
      _merge: true
      frontend:
        default:
          id_prefix: '061_'
          backend_options:
            preload_keys:
              - '061_EAV_ENTITY_TYPES:hash'
              - '061_GLOBAL_PLUGIN_LIST:hash'
              - '061_DB_IS_UP_TO_DATE:hash'
              - '061_SYSTEM_DEFAULT:hash'

CLEAN_STATIC_FILES

• Default—true
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.1.4 and later

Enables or disables cleaning static content files generated during the build or deploy phase. We recommend the default value true in development.

• true—Removes all existing static content before deploying the updated static content.
• false—The deployment only overwrites existing static content files if the generated content contains a newer version.

If you make modifications to static content through a separate process, set the value to false.

stage:
  deploy:
    CLEAN_STATIC_FILES: false

Failure to clean static view files before deploying can cause problems if you deploy updates to existing files without removing the previous versions. Because of static file fallback rules, fallback operations can display the wrong file if the directory contains multiple versions of the same file.

CRON_CONSUMERS_RUNNER

• Default—cron_run = false, max_messages = 1000
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.2.0 and later

Use this environment variable to confirm that message queues are running after a deployment.

• cron_run—A boolean value that enables or disables the consumers_runner cron job (default = false).

• max_messages—A number specifying the maximum number of messages each consumer must process before terminating (default = 1000). You can set the value to 0 to prevent the consumer from terminating.

• consumers—An array of strings specifying which consumers to run. An empty array runs all consumers.

• multiple_processes-A number specifying the number of processes to spawn for each consumer. Supported in Commerce 2.4.4 or greater.

Example array that runs specific consumers and the multiple_processes to spawn for each consumer:

stage:
  deploy:
    CRON_CONSUMERS_RUNNER:
      cron_run: true
      max_messages: 1000
      consumers:
        - example_consumer_1
        - example_consumer_2
-     multiple_processes:
        example_consumer_1: 4
        example_consumer_2: 3

Example of an empty array that runs all consumers:

stage:
  deploy:
    CRON_CONSUMERS_RUNNER:
      cron_run: true
      max_messages: 1000
      consumers: []

By default, the deployment process overwrites all settings in the env.php file. See Manage message queues in the Commerce Configuration Guide to learn how this works for on-premises Adobe Commerce.

CONSUMERS_WAIT_FOR_MAX_MESSAGES

• Default—false
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.2.0 and later

Configure how consumers process messages from the message queue by choosing one of the following options:

• false—Consumers process available messages in the queue, close the TCP connection, and terminate. Consumers do not wait for additional messages to enter the queue, even if the number of processed messages is less than the max_messages value specified in the CRON_CONSUMERS_RUNNER deploy variable.

• true—Consumers continue to process messages from the message queue until reaching the maximum number of messages (max_messages) specified in the CRON_CONSUMERS_RUNNER deploy variable before closing the TCP connection and terminating the consumer process. If the queue empties before reaching max_messages, the consumer waits for more messages to arrive.

stage:
  deploy:
    CONSUMERS_WAIT_FOR_MAX_MESSAGES: false

CRYPT_KEY

• Default—Not set
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.1.4 and later

When you move the database from one environment to another without an installation process, you need the corresponding cryptographic information. Adobe Commerce uses the encryption key value set in the Web UI as the crypt/key value in the env.php file.

DATABASE_CONFIGURATION

• Default—Not set
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.1.4 and later

If you defined a database in the relationships property of the .magento.app.yaml file, you can customize your database connections for deployment.

stage:
  deploy:
    DATABASE_CONFIGURATION:
      some_config: 'some_value'

By default, the deployment process overwrites all settings in the env.php file; however, you can choose to merge one or more values for a service configuration without overwriting all values.

Set the _merge option to one of the following:

• true—Merge the configured service values with the environment variable values.
• false—Overwrite the configured service values with the environment variable values.

The following example merges new values to an existing configuration:

stage:
  deploy:
    DATABASE_CONFIGURATION:
      some_config: 'some_new_value'
      _merge: true

Also, you can configure a table prefix.

The following example uses the ece_ table prefix with default connection settings instead of using the _merge option:

stage:
  deploy:
    DATABASE_CONFIGURATION:
      connection:
        default:
          username: user
          host: host
          dbname: magento
          password: password
      table_prefix: 'ece_'

Sample output:

MariaDB [main]> SHOW TABLES;
+-------------------------------------+
| Tables_in_main                      |
+-------------------------------------+
| ece_admin_passwords                 |
| ece_admin_system_messages           |
| ece_admin_user                      |
| ece_admin_user_session              |
| ece_adminnotification_inbox         |
| ece_amazon_customer                 |
| ece_authorization_rule              |
| ece_cache                           |
| ece_cache_tag                       |
| ece_captcha_log                     |
...

ELASTICSUITE_CONFIGURATION

• Default—Not set
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.2.0 and later

Retains customized ElasticSuite service settings between deployments and uses it in the ‘system/default/smile_elasticsuite_core_base_settings’ section of the main ElasticSuite configuration. If the ElasticSuite composer package is installed, this is configured automatically.

stage:
  deploy:
    ELASTICSUITE_CONFIGURATION:
      es_client:
        servers: 'remote-host:9200'
      indices_settings:
        number_of_shards: 1
        number_of_replicas: 0

By default, the deployment process overwrites all settings in the env.php file; however, you can choose to merge one or more values for a service configuration without overwriting all values.

Set the _merge option to one of the following:

• true—Merge the configured service values with the environment variable values.
• false—Overwrite the configured service values with the environment variable values.

The following example merges a new value to the existing configuration:

stage:
  deploy:
    ELASTICSUITE_CONFIGURATION:
      indices_settings:
        number_of_shards: 3
        number_of_replicas: 2
      _merge: true

Known limitations:

• Changing the search engine to any type other than elasticsuite causes a deploy failure accompanied by an appropriate validation error
• Removing the Elasticsearch service causes a deploy failure accompanied by an appropriate validation error

ENABLE_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS

• Default—false
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.1.4 and later

Enables and disables Google Analytics when deploying to Staging and Integration environments. By default, Google Analytics is true only for the Production environment. Set this value to true to enable Google Analytics in the Staging and Integration environments.

• true—Enables Google Analytics on Staging and Integration environments.
• false—Disables Google Analytics on Staging and Integration environments.

Add the ENABLE_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS environment variable to the deploy stage in the .magento.env.yaml file:

stage:
  deploy:
    ENABLE_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS: true

FORCE_UPDATE_URLS

• Default—true
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.1.4 and later

On deployment to Pro or Starter Staging and Production environments, this variable replaces Adobe Commerce base URLs in the database with the project URLs specified by the MAGENTO_CLOUD_ROUTES variable. Use this setting to override the default behavior of the UPDATE_URLS deploy variable, which is ignored when deploying to Staging or Production environments.

stage:
  deploy:
    FORCE_UPDATE_URLS: true

LOCK_PROVIDER

• Default—file
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.2.5 and later

The lock provider prevents the launch of duplicate cron jobs and cron groups. You must use the file lock provider in the Production environment. Starter environments and the Pro Integration environment do not use the MAGENTO_CLOUD_LOCKS_DIR variable, so ece-tools applies the db lock provider automatically.

stage:
  deploy:
    LOCK_PROVIDER: "db"

See Configure the lock in the Install guide.

MYSQL_USE_SLAVE_CONNECTION

• Default—false
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.1.4 and later

Adobe Commerce can read multiple databases asynchronously. Set to true to automatically use a read-only connection to the database to receive read-only traffic on a non-master node. This improves performance through load balancing, because only one node needs to handle read-write traffic. Set to false to remove any existing read-only connection array from the env.php file.

stage:
  deploy:
    MYSQL_USE_SLAVE_CONNECTION: true

When the MYSQL_USE_SLAVE_CONNECTION variable is set to true, the synchronous_replication parameter is set to true by default in the env.php file on Pro Staging and Production environments. When the MYSQL_USE_SLAVE_CONNECTION is set to false, the synchronous_replication parameter is not configured.

QUEUE_CONFIGURATION

• Default—Not set
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.1.4 and later

Use this environment variable to retain customized AMQP service settings between deployments. For example, if you prefer using an existing message queue service, like RabbitMQ, instead of relying on Adobe Commerce on cloud infrastructure to create it for you, use the QUEUE_CONFIGURATION environment variable to connect it to your site:

stage:
  deploy:
    QUEUE_CONFIGURATION:
      amqp:
        host: test.host
        port: 1234
      amqp2:
        host: test.host2
        port: 12345
      mq:
        host: mq.host
        port: 1234

By default, the deployment process overwrites all settings in the env.php file; however, you can choose to merge one or more values for a service configuration without overwriting all values.

Set the _merge option to one of the following:

• true—Merge the configured service values with the environment variable values.
• false—Overwrite the configured service values with the environment variable values.

The following example merges new values to an existing configuration:

stage:
  deploy:
    QUEUE_CONFIGURATION:
      _merge: true
      amqp:
        host: changed1.host
        port: 5672
      amqp2:
        host: changed2.host2
        port: 12345
      mq:
        host: changedmq.host
        port: 1234

REDIS_BACKEND

• Default—Cm_Cache_Backend_Redis
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.3.0 and later

Specifies the backend model configuration for the Redis cache.

Adobe Commerce version 2.3.0 and later includes the following backend models:

• Cm_Cache_Backend_Redis
• \Magento\Framework\Cache\Backend\Redis
• \Magento\Framework\Cache\Backend\RemoteSynchronizedCache

The example how to set REDIS_BACKEND

stage:
  deploy:
    REDIS_BACKEND: '\Magento\Framework\Cache\Backend\RemoteSynchronizedCache'

REDIS_USE_SLAVE_CONNECTION

• Default—false
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.1.16 and later

Adobe Commerce can read multiple Redis instances asynchronously. Set to true to automatically use a read-only connection to a Redis instance to receive read-only traffic on a non-master node. This improves performance through load balancing, because only one node needs to handle read-write traffic. Set to false to remove any existing read-only connection array from the env.php file.

stage:
  deploy:
    REDIS_USE_SLAVE_CONNECTION: true

You must have a Redis service configured in the .magento.app.yaml file and in the services.yaml file.

Ece-tools version 2002.0.18 and later uses more fault-tolerant settings. If Adobe Commerce cannot read data from the Redis slave instance, then it reads data from the Redis master instance.

The read-only connection is not available for use in the Integration environment or if you use the CACHE_CONFIGURATION variable.

RESOURCE_CONFIGURATION

• Default—Not set
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.1.4 and later

Maps a resource name to a database connection. This configuration corresponds to the resource section of the env.php file.

By default, the deployment process overwrites all settings in the env.php file; however, you can choose to merge one or more values for a service configuration without overwriting all values.

Set the _merge option to one of the following:

• true—Merge the configured service values with the environment variable values.
• false—Overwrite the configured service values with the environment variable values.

The following example merges new values to an existing configuration:

stage:
  deploy:
    RESOURCE_CONFIGURATION:
      _merge: true
      default_setup:
        connection: default

SCD_COMPRESSION_LEVEL

• Default—4
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.1.4 and later

Specifies which gzip compression level (0 to 9) to use when compressing static content; 0 disables compression.

stage:
  deploy:
    SCD_COMPRESSION_LEVEL: 5

SCD_COMPRESSION_TIMEOUT

• Default—600
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.1.4 and later

When the time it takes to compress the static assets exceeds the compression timeout limit, it interrupts the deployment process. Set the maximum execution time, in seconds, for the static content compression command.

stage:
  deploy:
    SCD_COMPRESSION_TIMEOUT: 800

SCD_MATRIX

• Default—Not set
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.1.4 and later

You can configure multiple locales per theme. This customization speeds up the deployment process by reducing the number of unnecessary theme files. For example, you can deploy the magento/backend theme in English and a custom theme in other languages.

The following example deploys the Magento/backend theme with three locales:

stage:
  deploy:
    SCD_MATRIX:
      "magento/backend":
        language:
          - en_US
          - fr_FR
          - af_ZA

Also, you can choose to not deploy a theme:

stage:
  deploy:
    SCD_MATRIX:
      "magento/backend": [ ]

SCD_MAX_EXECUTION_TIME

• Default—Not set
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.2.0 and later

Allows you to increase the maximum expected execution time for static content deployment.

By default, Adobe Commerce sets the maximum expected execution to 900 seconds, but in some scenarios you might need more time to complete the static content deployment for a Cloud project.

stage:
  deploy:
    SCD_MAX_EXECUTION_TIME: 3600

SCD_NO_PARENT

• Default—false
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.4.2 and later

On the deploy phase, we recommend setting SCD_NO_PARENT: true so that the generation of static content for parent themes does not occur during the deploy phase. This setting minimizes deployment time and prevents site downtime that can occur if the static content build fails during the deployment. See Static content deployment.

stage:
  deploy:
    SCD_NO_PARENT: true

SCD_STRATEGY

• Default—quick
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.2.0 and later

Allows you to customize the deployment strategy for static content. See Deploy static view files.

Use these options only if you have more than one locale:

• standard—deploys all static view files for all packages.
• quick—minimizes deployment time. This is the default command option, if not specified.
• compact—conserves disk space on the server. In Adobe Commerce version 2.2.4 and earlier, this setting overrides the value for scd_threads with a value of 1.

stage:
  deploy:
    SCD_STRATEGY: "compact"

SCD_THREADS

• Default—Automatic
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.1.4 and later

Sets the number of threads for static content deployment. The default value is set based on the detected CPU thread count and does not exceed a value of 4. Increasing the number of threads speeds up static content deployment; decreasing the number of threads slows it down. You can set the thread value, for example:

stage:
  deploy:
    SCD_THREADS: 2

To further reduce deployment time, we recommend using Configuration Management with the scd-dump command to move static deployment into the build phase.

SEARCH_CONFIGURATION

• Default—Not set
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.1.4 and later

Use this environment variable to retain customized search service settings between deployments. For example:

Elasticsearch configuration:

stage:
  deploy:
   SEARCH_CONFIGURATION:
     engine: elasticsearch
     elasticsearch_server_hostname: http://elasticsearch.internal
     elasticsearch_server_port: '9200'
     elasticsearch_index_prefix: magento2
     elasticsearch_server_timeout: '15'

OpenSearch configuration (for Commerce 2.4.6 and later):

stage:
  deploy:
   SEARCH_CONFIGURATION:
     engine: opensearch
     opensearch_server_hostname: 'http://opensearch.internal'
     opensearch_server_port: '9200'
     opensearch_index_prefix: 'magento2'
     opensearch_server_timeout: '15'

By default, the deployment process overwrites all settings in the env.php file; however, you can choose to merge one or more values for a service configuration without overwriting all values.

Set the _merge option to one of the following:

• true—Merge the configured service values with the environment variable values.
• false—Overwrite the configured service values with the environment variable values.

The following example merges a new value to the existing configuration:

stage:
  deploy:
    SEARCH_CONFIGURATION:
      engine: elasticsearch
      elasticsearch_server_port: '9200'
      _merge: true

SESSION_CONFIGURATION

• Default—Not set
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.1.4 and later

Configure Redis session storage. You must specify the save, redis, host, port, and database options for the session storage variable. For example:

stage:
  deploy:
    SESSION_CONFIGURATION:
      redis:
        bot_first_lifetime: 100
        bot_lifetime: 10001
        database: 0
        disable_locking: 1
        host: redis.internal
        max_concurrency: 10
        max_lifetime: 10001
        min_lifetime: 100
        port: 6379
      save: redis

By default, the deployment process overwrites all settings in the env.php file; however, you can choose to merge one or more values for a service configuration without overwriting all values.

Set the _merge option to one of the following:

• true—Merge the configured service values with the environment variable values.
• false—Overwrite the configured service values with the environment variable values.

The following example merges a new value to the existing configuration:

stage:
  deploy:
    SESSION_CONFIGURATION:
      _merge: true
      redis:
        max_concurrency: 10

SKIP_SCD

• Default— Not set
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.1.4 and later

Set to true to skip static content deployment during the deploy phase.

On the deploy phase, we recommend setting SKIP_SCD: true so that the static content build does not happen during the deploy phase. This setting minimizes deployment time and prevents site downtime that can occur if the static content build fails during the deployment. See Static content deployment.

stage:
  deploy:
    SKIP_SCD: true

UPDATE_URLS

• Default—true
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.1.4 and later

On deployment, replace Adobe Commerce base URLs in the database with the project URLs specified by the MAGENTO_CLOUD_ROUTES variable. This configuration is useful for local development, where base URLs are set up for your local environment. When you deploy to a Cloud environment, we change the URLs so you can access your storefront and Admin using project URLs.

If you need to update URLs when deploying to Pro or Starter Staging and Production environments, use the FORCE_UPDATE_URLS variable.

stage:
  deploy:
    UPDATE_URLS: false

VERBOSE_COMMANDS

• Default—Not set
• Version—Adobe Commerce 2.1.4 and later

Enable or disable the Symfony debug verbosity level for bin/magento CLI commands performed during the deployment phase.

Choose the level of detail provided in the logs:

• -v= normal output
• -vv= more verbose output
• -vvv = verbose output ideal for debug

stage:
  deploy:
    VERBOSE_COMMANDS: "-vv"