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About Environments

Environments are applied to servers, projects, and steps.

Figure 1. The Environments ModuleFigure shows the list of Environments in the Environment Module

The Build Forge® system allows you to manage environment variables separate from the projects and servers that they apply to. This paradigm provides you with a great deal of flexibility in creating the environment for any particular command:

When the system runs a step, it applies all the relevant environments to create the step environment: server, project, and step, in that order.

Note: Too many environment variables in a single project can cause Build Forge to hang. To avoid this problem, limit the number of environment variables to fewer than 8000. You can also use .source to set large numbers of environment variables without impacting performance. See Running Scripts Before a Command With .source.
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