Compose deploy blocked by missing required environment variables

Error recorded 1 times in PanelAlpha Engine deploys on Docker Compose. The deploy log below is the recorded failure output.

Seen1 times
WhereDocker Compose

Why it happens

Docker Compose could not interpolate the application configuration because required password variables were not provided. The missing values are DOCKER_COMPOSE_APP_ADMIN_PASSWORD and DOCKER_COMPOSE_POSTGRES_PASSWORD, used by the app and PostgreSQL services. The containers were not started.

What the log looks like

Deploy log
Detected project type: Docker ComposeUsing strategy: composeStarting application (docker compose up -d)error while interpolating services.app.environment.ADMIN_PASSWORD: variable DOCKER_COMPOSE_APP_ADMIN_PASSWORD is missing a valueerror while interpolating services.app.environment.DB_PASS: required variable DOCKER_COMPOSE_POSTGRES_PASSWORD is missing a valueerror while interpolating services.postgres.environment.POSTGRES_PASSWORD: required variable DOCKER_COMPOSE_POSTGRES_PASSWORD is missing a value

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