Read how to configure environment variables for self-hosted Infisical.
Infisical accepts all configurations via environment variables. For a minimal self-hosted instance, at least ENCRYPTION_KEY, AUTH_SECRET, DB_CONNECTION_URI and REDIS_URL must be defined.
However, you can configure additional settings to activate more features as needed.
The platform utilizes Postgres to persist all of its data and Redis for caching and backgroud tasks
DB_CONNECTION_URI
string
default: ""required
Postgres database connection string.
DB_ROOT_CERT
string
default: ""
Configure the SSL certificate for securing a Postgres connection by first encoding it in base64.
Use the command below to encode your certificate:
echo "<certificate>" | base64
Without email configuration, Infisical’s core functions like sign-up/login and secret operations work, but this disables multi-factor authentication, email invites for projects, alerts for suspicious logins, and all other email-dependent features.
SMTP_HOST
string
default: "none"
Hostname to connect to for establishing SMTP connections
Port to connect to for establishing SMTP connections
SMTP_SECURE
string
default: "none"
If true, use TLS when connecting to host. If false, TLS will be used if STARTTLS is supported
SMTP_FROM_ADDRESS
string
default: "none"
Email address to be used for sending emails
SMTP_FROM_NAME
string
default: "none"
Name label to be used in From field (e.g. Team)
Create an account and configure SendGrid to send emails.
Create a SendGrid API Key under Settings > API Keys
Set a name for your API Key, we recommend using “Infisical,” and select the “Restricted Key” option. You will need to enable the “Mail Send” permission as shown below:
With the API Key, you can now set your SMTP environment variables:
SMTP_HOST=smtp.sendgrid.net
SMTP_USERNAME=apikey
SMTP_PASSWORD=SG.rqFsfjxYPiqE1lqZTgD_lz7x8IVLx # your SendGrid API Key from step above
SMTP_PORT=587
SMTP_SECURE=true
[email protected] # your email address being used to send out emails
SMTP_FROM_NAME=Infisical
Remember that you will need to restart Infisical for this to work properly.
Create an account and configure Mailgun to send emails.
Obtain your Mailgun credentials in Sending > Overview > SMTP
With your Mailgun credentials, you can now set up your SMTP environment variables:
SMTP_HOST=smtp.mailgun.org # obtained from credentials page
[email protected] # obtained from credentials page
SMTP_PASSWORD=password # obtained from credentials page
SMTP_PORT=587
SMTP_SECURE=true
[email protected] # your email address being used to send out emails
SMTP_FROM_NAME=Infisical
1
Create a verifed identity
This will be used to verify the email you are sending from.
If you AWS SES is under sandbox mode, you will only be able to send emails to verified identies.
2
Create an account and configure AWS SES
Create an IAM user for SMTP authentication and obtain SMTP credentials in SMTP settings > Create SMTP credentials
3
Set up your SMTP environment variables
With your AWS SES SMTP credentials, you can now set up your SMTP environment variables for your Infisical instance.
SMTP_HOST=email-smtp.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com # SMTP endpoint obtained from SMTP settings
SMTP_USERNAME=xxx # your SMTP username
SMTP_PASSWORD=xxx # your SMTP password
SMTP_PORT=465
SMTP_SECURE=true
[email protected] # your email address being used to send out emails
SMTP_FROM_NAME=Infisical
Remember that you will need to restart Infisical for this to work properly.
Create an account and configure SocketLabs to send emails.
From the dashboard, navigate to SMTP Credentials > SMTP & APIs > SMTP Credentials to obtain your SocketLabs SMTP credentials.
With your SocketLabs SMTP credentials, you can now set up your SMTP environment variables:
SMTP_HOST=smtp.socketlabs.com
SMTP_USERNAME=username # obtained from your credentials
SMTP_PASSWORD=password # obtained from your credentials
SMTP_PORT=587
SMTP_SECURE=true
[email protected] # your email address being used to send out emails
SMTP_FROM_NAME=Infisical
The SMTP_FROM_ADDRESS environment variable should be an email for an
authenticated domain under Configuration > Domain Management in SocketLabs.
For example, if you’re using SocketLabs in sandbox mode, then you may use an
email like [email protected].
Remember that you will need to restart Infisical for this to work properly.
With the API Key, you can now set your SMTP environment variables variables:
SMTP_HOST=smtp.resend.com
SMTP_USERNAME=resend
SMTP_PASSWORD=YOUR_API_KEY
SMTP_PORT=587
SMTP_SECURE=true
[email protected] # your email address being used to send out emails
SMTP_FROM_NAME=Infisical
Remember that you will need to restart Infisical for this to work properly.
Create an account and enable “less secure app access” in Gmail Account Settings > Security. This will allow
applications like Infisical to authenticate with Gmail via your username and password.
With your Gmail username and password, you can set your SMTP environment variables:
SMTP_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
[email protected] # your email
SMTP_PASSWORD=password # your password
SMTP_PORT=587
SMTP_SECURE=true
[email protected]
SMTP_FROM_NAME=Infisical
As per the notice by Google, you should note that using Gmail credentials for SMTP configuration
will only work for Google Workspace or Google Cloud Identity customers as of May 30, 2022.
Put differently, the SMTP configuration is only possible with business (not personal) Gmail credentials.
Create an account and configure Office365 to send emails.
With your login credentials, you can now set up your SMTP environment variables:
SMTP_HOST=smtp.office365.com
[email protected] # your username
SMTP_PASSWORD=password # your password
SMTP_PORT=587
SMTP_SECURE=true
[email protected]
SMTP_FROM_NAME=Infisical
Create an account and configure Zoho Mail to send emails.
With your email credentials, you can now set up your SMTP environment variables:
SMTP_HOST=smtp.zoho.com
SMTP_USERNAME=username # your email
SMTP_PASSWORD=password # your password
SMTP_PORT=587
SMTP_SECURE=true
[email protected] # your personal Zoho email or domain-based email linked to Zoho Mail
SMTP_FROM_NAME=Infisical
You can use either your personal Zoho email address like [email protected] or
a domain-based email address like [email protected]. If using a
domain-based email address, then please make sure that you’ve configured and
verified it with Zoho Mail.
Remember that you will need to restart Infisical for this to work properly.
By default, users can only login via email/password based login method.
To login into Infisical with OAuth providers such as Google, configure the associated variables.
