Reference
Val Town
Push a penv environment into a Val Town val's environment variables.
Push a penv environment into a Val Town val's environment variables.
The connection
| What | This provider |
|---|---|
| Vendor | Val Town |
| Key | valtown-env |
| Availability | available. You can connect it today. |
| Credential penv holds | valtown-token |
| Values read back | no |
| Activation | on-next-deploy |
What it moves
| Direction | What it does |
|---|---|
export | Writes names and values from penv into the store. |
Val Town returns no value once it holds one, so penv can write here and cannot read back.
When a written value goes live
on-next-deploy. A new value waits there and arrives with your next deploy.
What happens to a name that exists
| Direction | Policies you can pick |
|---|---|
export | create_only, overwrite, overwrite_and_prune |
How syncs work says what each one does.
How you connect
You paste a credential you already hold. penv seals it and never shows it again.
| Field | Label | Kind | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|
token | API token | secret, masked here and sealed | yes | An API token with read and write access to your vals. |
What a mapping asks for
Answered once per environment you map.
| Field | Label | Kind | Required | Advanced | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
valId | Val | text | yes | no | The val whose environment variables this environment maps onto. |
Permissions it needs
penv probes for these when it verifies the connection.
| Permission | Directions | Blocking | Without it |
|---|---|---|---|
vals:read | every direction | yes | Preview cannot list the val's environment variables. |
vals:write | export | yes | Export cannot write anything. |