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Configuration

There are 3 ways to configure Semaphore:

Snap configuration

Snap configurations should be used for when Semaphore was installed via Snap.
To see a list of available options, use the following command:
sudo snap get semaphore
You can change each of these configurations. For example if you want to change Semaphore port, use following command:
sudo snap set semaphore port=4444
Don't forget to restart Semaphore after changing a configuration:
sudo snap restart semaphore

Interactive setup

Use this option for first time configuration (not working for Semaphore installed via Snap).
semaphore setup

Configuration file

Semaphore uses a config.json configuration file with following content:
{
"bolt": {
"host": "/home/ubuntu/semaphore.bolt",
},
"mysql": {
"host": "localhost",
"user": "root",
"pass": "*****",
"name": "semaphore",
"options": {}
},
"postgres": {
"host": "localhost",
"user": "postgres",
"pass": "*****",
"name": "semaphore",
"options": {}
},
"dialect": "postgres",
"port": "",
"interface": "",
"tmp_path": "/tmp/semaphore",
"cookie_hash": "*****",
"cookie_encryption": "*****",
"access_key_encryption": "*****",
"email_sender": "",
"email_host": "",
"email_port": "",
"web_host": "",
"ldap_binddn": "",
"ldap_bindpassword": "",
"ldap_server": "",
"ldap_searchdn": "",
"ldap_searchfilter": "",
"ldap_mappings": {
"dn": "",
"mail": "",
"uid": "",
"cn": ""
},
"telegram_chat": "",
"telegram_token": "",
"concurrency_mode": "",
"max_parallel_tasks": 0,
"email_alert": false,
"telegram_alert": false,
"slack_alert": false,
"ldap_enable": false,
"ldap_needtls": false
}

Configuration options

Configuration file
Snap configuration
Description
bolt.host
Path to the BoltDB database file
mysql.host
mysql.host
MySQL database host
mysql.name
mysql.name
MySQL database (schema) name
mysql.user
mysql.user
MySQL user name
mysql.pass
mysql.pass
MySQL user's password
postgres.host
postgres.host
Postgres database host
postgres.name
postgres.name
Postgres database (schema) name
postgres.user
postgres.user
Postgres user name
postgres.pass
postgres.pass
Postgres user's password
dialect
dialect
Can be mysql, postgres or bolt
port
port
TCP port on which the web interface will be available. Default: 3000
interface
interface
Useful if your server has multiple network interfaces
tmp_path
Path to directory where cloned repositories and generated files are stored. Default: /tmp/semaphore
access_key_encryption
access-key-encryption
Secret key used for encrypting access keys in database. Read more in Database encryption reference.
web_host
web-host
Can be useful if you want to use Semaphore by the subpath, for example: http://yourdomain.com/semaphore.
email_sender
email-sender
email_host
email-host
email_port
email-port
email_secure
email-secure
email_username
email-username
email_password
email-password
email_alert
email-alert
telegram_alert
telegram-alert
slack_alert
slack-alert
ldap_enable
ldap-enable
ldap_needtls
ldap-needtls
ldap_binddn
ldap-binddn
ldap_bindpassword
ldap-bindpassword
ldap_server
ldap-server
ldap_searchdn
ldap-searchdn
concurrency_mode
concurrency-mode
Can be unset/empty or project or node. When set to project, tasks will run in parallel if and only if they do not share the same project id, with no regard to the nodes/hosts that are affected. When set to node, a task will run in parallel if and only if the hosts affected by tasks already running does not intersect with the hosts that would be affected by the task in question. If concurrency_mode is not specified or left empty, no task will start before the previous one has finished.
max_parallel_tasks
max-parallel-tasks
Max allowed parallel tasks if concurrency-mode is enabled. Can also be set/changed within the Web UI (project settings).
oidc_providers
Static Badge
OpenID provider settings. You can provie multible OpenID providers. More about OpenID configuration read in OpenID.
password_login_disable
Static Badge
Disable login with using password. Only LDAP and OpenID.
non_admin_can_create_project
Static Badge
Allow non-admin users to create new projects.

Public URL

If you use nginx or other web server before Semaphore, you should provide configuration option web_host.
For example you configured NGINX on the server which proxies queries to Semaphore.
Server address https://exmaple.com and you proxies all queries https://exmaple.com/semaphore to Semaphore.
Your web_host will be https://exmaple.com/semaphore.