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Windmill (self-hosted)
Variables on your own Windmill instance, read back per key.
Variables on your own Windmill instance, read back per key.
The connection
| What | This provider |
|---|---|
| Vendor | Windmill |
| Key | windmill-self-hosted-variables |
| Availability | available. You can connect it today. |
| Credential penv holds | windmill-self-hosted-token |
| Values read back | yes |
| Activation | immediate |
What it moves
| Direction | What it does |
|---|---|
import | Reads names and values out of the store into penv. |
export | Writes names and values from penv into the store. |
When a written value goes live
immediate. The running app sees a new value at once.
What happens to a name that exists
| Direction | Policies you can pick |
|---|---|
import | skip_existing, new_version, fail |
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 | Token | secret, masked here and sealed | yes | Minted from your instance's account settings, and scoped to the workspace below. |
What the connection asks for
Fixed when you connect, and shared by every mapping on it.
| Field | Label | Kind | Required | Advanced | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
host | Instance URL | text | yes | no | Must be reachable from the internet for us to write to it. |
workspace | Workspace | text | yes | no | The workspace ID from the Windmill URL. Its display name is a different value. |
What a mapping asks for
Answered once per environment you map.
| Field | Label | Kind | Required | Advanced | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
folder | Folder | text | yes | no | penv writes under f/{folder}/. It never writes into a person's u/ namespace, and pruning deletes every variable in the folder, including ones this sync did not write. |
Permissions it needs
penv probes for these when it verifies the connection.
| Permission | Directions | Blocking | Without it |
|---|---|---|---|
workspace:read | every direction | yes | Preview cannot list the workspace's variables. |
workspace:write | export | yes | Export cannot create, change or remove a variable. |