Update group and project variables help text as follow-up from "Instance Variables UI"

Problem to solve

Update group and project variables help text as follow-up from "Instance Variables UI". This was scoped off.

Intended users

User experience goal

Proposal

Project:

Environment variables are applied to environments via the Runner. You can use environment variables for passwords, secret keys, etc. Make variables available to the running application by prepending the variable key with K8S_SECRET_. You can set variables to be:

  • Protected variables are only exposed to protected branches or tags.
  • Masked variables are hidden in job logs (though they must match certain regexp requirements to do so).

More information

Group:

Environment variables are applied to all project environments in this group via the Runner. You can use environment variables for passwords, secret keys, etc. Make variables available to the running application by prepending the variable key with K8S_SECRET_. You can set variables to be:

  • Protected variables are only exposed to protected branches or tags.
  • Masked variables are hidden in job logs (though they must match certain regexp requirements to do so).

More information

Further details

Permissions and Security

Documentation

Availability & Testing

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

What is the type of buyer?

Is this a cross-stage feature?

Links / references