[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"problem-detail-error-start-app-error-while-interpolating-services-app-environment":3},{"stack":4,"error":5,"seoName":6,"seoStack":7,"seo":8,"breadcrumb":10,"titlePrefix":17,"titleAccent":6,"lead":18,"facts":21,"why":36,"log":50,"fix":79,"engine":93,"related":100,"pitch":103},"compose","start-app-error-while-interpolating-services-app-environment","Compose deploy blocked by missing required environment variables","Docker Compose",{"description":9},"Learn what causes Compose deploy blocked by missing required environment variables, how PanelAlpha Engine responds to it during deployment.",[11,14,16],{"label":12,"href":13},"App Installations","\u002Fapps",{"label":7,"href":15},"\u002Fapps\u002Fstacks\u002Fcompose",{"label":6},"",[19],{"text":20},"Error recorded 1 times in PanelAlpha Engine deploys on Docker Compose. The deploy log below is the recorded failure output.",[22,27,30,32],{"label":23,"value":24,"tone":25,"tooltip":26},"Type","Error","err","An error that occurred in the deployed application. It is not necessarily a PanelAlpha Engine error, but we keep working on improvements so you run into fewer of them.",{"label":28,"value":29},"Seen","1 times",{"label":31,"value":7},"Where",{"label":33,"value":34,"tooltip":35},"Status","Observed","Our team will look into this soon, verify the cause and try to fix it in an upcoming release.",{"heading":37,"body":38},"Why it happens",[39,41,44,46,48],{"text":40},"Docker Compose could not interpolate the application configuration because required password variables were not provided. The missing values are ",{"text":42,"code":43},"DOCKER_COMPOSE_APP_ADMIN_PASSWORD",true,{"text":45}," and ",{"text":47,"code":43},"DOCKER_COMPOSE_POSTGRES_PASSWORD",{"text":49},", used by the app and PostgreSQL services. The containers were not started.",{"heading":51,"block":52},"What the log looks like",{"header":53,"lines":54},"Deploy log",[55,59,63,67,71,75],{"segments":56},[57],{"text":58},"Detected project type: Docker Compose",{"segments":60},[61],{"text":62},"Using strategy: compose",{"segments":64},[65],{"text":66},"Starting application (docker compose up -d)",{"segments":68},[69],{"text":70},"error while interpolating services.app.environment.ADMIN_PASSWORD: variable DOCKER_COMPOSE_APP_ADMIN_PASSWORD is missing a value",{"segments":72},[73],{"text":74},"error while interpolating services.app.environment.DB_PASS: required variable DOCKER_COMPOSE_POSTGRES_PASSWORD is missing a value",{"segments":76},[77],{"text":78},"error while interpolating services.postgres.environment.POSTGRES_PASSWORD: required variable DOCKER_COMPOSE_POSTGRES_PASSWORD is missing a value",{"heading":80,"steps":81,"block":90},"How to fix it",[82],[83,85,86,87,88],{"text":84},"Add strong values for ",{"text":42,"code":43},{"text":45},{"text":47,"code":43},{"text":89}," to the deployment environment or approved secrets configuration. Confirm the variable names match the Compose file exactly, then redeploy. Do not commit passwords to the project archive.",{"header":91,"lines":92},"Fix by hand",[],{"heading":94,"body":95,"block":98},"How PanelAlpha Engine solves it",[96],{"text":97},"The Engine could detect required Compose variables before starting containers and report all missing values in a structured preflight check. Secret handling should also make the deployment source and expected variable names clear without exposing secret values.",{"header":17,"lines":99},[],{"heading":101,"items":102},"Apps affected",[],{"heading":104,"body":105,"footNote":106,"docsLabel":107,"docsHref":108},"Try PanelAlpha Engine yourself.","The easiest way to turn your server into a safe, controlled environment for your AI agent. Deploy, manage and maintain any project from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any other MCP client. Open source under Apache 2.0, free to run.","Requires Ubuntu 24.04 or 26.04 · 2 GB RAM · 1 CPU","Read the documentation","https:\u002F\u002Fpanelalpha.com\u002Fdocs"]