Restart your Broker for a new environment variable

If you change an environment variable, you must restart your Broker, except in Kubernetes deployments.

You must use -e BROKER_SERVER_URL=https://broker.REGION.snyk.io \ for regional Snyk instances. For details, see Broker URLs.

docker run --restart=always \ -p 8000:8000 \ -e ACCEPT_CODE=true \ -e DEPLOYMENT_ID=<DEPLOYMENTID> \ -e CLIENT_ID=<CLIENTID> \ -e CLIENT_SECRET=<CLIENTSECRET> \ -e MY_GITHUB_TOKEN=GITHUB_TOKEN_VALUE \ -e PORT=8000 \ snyk/broker:universal

At this point, the Broker will display a message like the following:

{"name":"my github connection","hostname":"ae7d64e0edac","pid":1,"level":30,"id":"12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012","msg":"Connection (my github connection) not in use by any orgs. Will check periodically and create connection when in use.","time":"2024-06-18T20:21:24.382Z","v":0}

In Kubernetes deployment with hot-loaded secrets, when you edit a secret, typically using a vault system or something similar, the values in the secrets are automatically updated into the mounted secret file. This allows the Broker to trigger a reloading while running, hot-loading the new valuew without needing to restart the container.