Project Environments

Xill4 allows you to manage secrets and variables at a project level using environments. You can create multiple environments to separate your configuration data for different project stages, such as development, testing, and production.

Environments provide a secure way to store sensitive information by encrypting secret values.

Creating and managing environments

• Select the project you want to manage the environments for.
• Click on the environment editor icon in the toolbar, or use the shortkey E to open the environment editor.
• Click to add a new environment.
• Provide a name for your environment (e.g., "development", "testing", "production") and apply

note

Deleting an environment will remove all associated secrets and variables.

Adding environment secrets and variables

After creating a new environment, or selecting an existing one in the environment editor, you can add new environment secrets or variables as follows:

• Click to add a new secret.
• Provide both the key and value and apply
• Optionally, before saving, toggle between the secret and variable types by pressing
  secret
  or
  variable
  respectively

note

Secrets are stored encrypted and cannot be viewed again once saved. If you need to change a secret, you must update it with the new value.

Using environment secrets and variables in flows

To retrieve a secret or variable from the active environment, you can use the variable syntax (%variableOrSecretName%). For example, if you have a variable called myVariable in the active environment, you can use the syntax %myVariable% to retrieve it.

Security

Xill4 uses OpenSSL to encrypt secrets. OpenSSL is a robust and widely-used cryptography library that provides a high level of security for your sensitive data. You can learn more about OpenSSL on their official website here.