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# J40 Workflow Environment Variables and Secrets
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## Summary
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The Github Action workflows used to build and deploy the Justice40 data pipeline and website depend on some environment variables. Non-sensitive values are stored in the Github repo as [environment variables](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/writing-workflows/choosing-what-your-workflow-does/store-information-in-variables). Sensitive values that should not be exposed publicly are stored in the repo as [secrets](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-for-github-actions/security-guides/using-secrets-in-github-actions).
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## List of Environment Variables
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### DESTINATION_FOLDER
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This is a local environment variable in the Deploy Frontend Main workflow derived from branch name used to name the deploy directory
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### SCORE_VERSION
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The version of the scoring to be deployed. The current version is "2.0".
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## List of Secrets
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### CENSUS_API_KEY
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The key used to access US Census datasets via its [APIs](https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets.html). A new key can be requested for free [here](https://api.census.gov/data/key_signup.html).
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### CLIENT_DEV_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
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The AWS access key id used to add/remove files to the S3_WEB_BUCKET, as well as invalidating the Cloudfront distribution belonging to WEB_CDN_ID. This access key requires read/write access to the S3 bucket, and full access to the Cloudfront distribution.
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### CLIENT_DEV_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
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The AWS secret access key belonging to CLIENT_DEV_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID.
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### DATA_CDN_ID
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The ID of the AWS Cloudfront distribution for the S3_DATA_BUCKET.
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### DATA_DEV_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
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The AWS access key id used to add/remove files to the S3_DATA_BUCKET, as well as invalidating the Cloudfront distribution belonging to DATA_CDN_ID. This access key requires read/write access to the S3 bucket, and full access to the Cloudfront distribution.
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### DATA_DEV_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
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The AWS secret access key belonging to DATA_DEV_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID.
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### DATA_SOURCE
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Local variable that determines if the website should point to a local directory or use the production AWS cdn for backend data. Value can be set to `cdn` or `local`.
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### DATA_URL
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The full address of the backend data files hostname, currently [https://static-data-screeningtool.geoplatform.gov](https://static-data-screeningtool.geoplatform.gov). This information is public so technically it could be changed to be a non-secret environment variable.
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### J40_TOOL_MONITORING_SLACK_ALERTS
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The [Slack webhook](https://api.slack.com/messaging/webhooks) address used by the Ping Check workflow to send failure alerts.
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### SITE_URL
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The full address of the Justice40 Website hostname, currently [https://screeningtool.geoplatform.gov](https://screeningtool.geoplatform.gov). This information is public so technically it could be changed to be a non-secret environment variable.
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### S3_DATA_BUCKET
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The name of the AWS S3 bucket hosting the files created by the data pipeline application.
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### S3_WEBSITE_BUCKET
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The name of the AWS S3 bucket hosting the static website files.
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### WEB_CDN_ID
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The ID of the AWS Cloudfront distribution for the S3_WEBSITE_BUCKET.
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## Future Improvements
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To improve security, a few items should be addressed. The use of AWS access keys should be replaced by a more secure soultion such as [OpenID Connect (OIDC)](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/use-iam-roles-to-connect-github-actions-to-actions-in-aws/). If continuing to use AWS acccess keys, then key rotation should be implemented using a process such as the one documented [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/patterns/automatically-rotate-iam-user-access-keys-at-scale-with-aws-organizations-and-aws-secrets-manager.html). The CENSUS_API_KEY could be rotated, but it would have to be a manual process as there is no programmatic way to generate a new key.
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