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-# Used in production environment on DigitalOcean
-# See .env.example for explanations for the env values that have no explanations here
-
-DATABASE_HOST=
-DATABASE_NAME=
-DATABASE_PASSWORD=
-DATABASE_PORT=
-DATABASE_USER=
-DISCORD_CLIENT_ID=
-DISCORD_CLIENT_SECRET=
-ENABLE_DOCUMENTATION=
-GH_USERNAME=
-GH_PASSWORD=
-DISCORD_TOKEN=
-DISCORD_PATINA_GUILD_ID=
-DISCORD_PATINA_LEETCODE_CHANNEL_ID=
-DISCORD_REPORTING_GUILD_ID=
-DISCORD_REPORTING_CHANNEL_ID=
-DISCORD_REPORTING_LOG_GUILD_ID=
-DISCORD_REPORTING_LOG_CHANNEL_ID=
-GH_EMAIL_HOST=
-GH_EMAIL_PORT=
-GH_EMAIL_TYPE=
-GH_EMAIL_USERNAME=
-GH_EMAIL_PASSWORD=
-CODEBLOOM_EMAIL_HOST=
-CODEBLOOM_EMAIL_PORT=
-CODEBLOOM_EMAIL_TYPE=
-CODEBLOOM_EMAIL_USERNAME=
-CODEBLOOM_EMAIL_PASSWORD=
-ACTUATOR_USERNAME=
-ACTUATOR_PASSWORD=
-# So we can force a specific timezone on our production server.
-TZ=
-SECRET_KEY=
-SERVER_URL=
-REDIS_URL=
-LOKI_URL=
-LOKI_USERNAME=
-LOKI_PASSWORD=
-LOKI_SERVER_DOMAIN=
-LOKI_BATCH_SIZE=
-LOKI_BATCH_TIMEOUT_MS=
-
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-# used in ci to scan the database schema table.
-
-DATABASE_HOST=
-DATABASE_PORT=
-DATABASE_NAME=
-DATABASE_USER=
-DATABASE_PASSWORD=
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-# Secrets that will be set inside of GitHub Actions under the `staging` environment
-# NOTE: We re-use the same environment secrets for our staging application on DigitalOcean, for the sake of simplicity
-# see .env.example for explanations for the env values that don't have any explanations here.
-
-DATABASE_HOST=
-DATABASE_NAME=
-DATABASE_PASSWORD=
-DATABASE_PORT=
-DATABASE_USER=
-
-ENABLE_DOCUMENTATION=
-
-GH_USERNAME=
-GH_PASSWORD=
-
-DISCORD_CLIENT_ID=
-DISCORD_CLIENT_SECRET=
-DISCORD_TOKEN=
-
-DISCORD_PATINA_GUILD_ID=
-DISCORD_PATINA_LEETCODE_CHANNEL_ID=
-
-DISCORD_REPORTING_GUILD_ID=
-DISCORD_REPORTING_CHANNEL_ID=
-
-DISCORD_REPORTING_LOG_GUILD_ID=
-DISCORD_REPORTING_LOG_CHANNEL_ID=
-
-GH_EMAIL_HOST=
-GH_EMAIL_PORT=
-GH_EMAIL_TYPE=
-GH_EMAIL_USERNAME=
-GH_EMAIL_PASSWORD=
-
-CODEBLOOM_EMAIL_HOST=
-CODEBLOOM_EMAIL_PORT=
-CODEBLOOM_EMAIL_TYPE=
-CODEBLOOM_EMAIL_USERNAME=
-CODEBLOOM_EMAIL_PASSWORD=
-
-ACTUATOR_USERNAME=
-ACTUATOR_PASSWORD=
-
-# Force our backend server / GitHub Action to use a specific timezone
-TZ=
-
-SECRET_KEY=
-
-# These values are not used inside of the application code, but rather the GitHub Action to
-# upload images to Docker Hub and programmatically interact with / re-deploy on DigitalCean
-DOCKER_HUB_PAT=
-DIGITAL_OCEAN_PAT=
-DIGITAL_OCEAN_APP_ID=
-
-# used by the frontend to load certain feature flags.
-# looks for the string literal "true"
-VITE_STAGING=true
-
-# Redis URL
-REDIS_URL=
-
-# for logs
-LOKI_URL=
-LOKI_USERNAME=
-LOKI_PASSWORD=
-# used to fill in `app` label
-LOKI_SERVER_DOMAIN=
-# batch config for log fwd performance
-LOKI_BATCH_SIZE=100
-LOKI_BATCH_TIMEOUT_MS=5000
-