Addition of USERNAME and PASSWORD to environment variables to create Owner user.

argilla/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ These are the section headers that we use:
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 ## [Unreleased]()
+### Fixed
+
+- Fixed the deployment yaml used to create a new Argilla server in K8s. Added `USERNAME` and `PASSWORD` to the environment variables of pod template. ([#5434](https://github.com/argilla-io/argilla/issues/5434))
 
 ## [2.2.1](https://github.com/argilla-io/argilla/compare/v2.2.0...v2.2.1)
 

argilla/docs/reference/argilla-server/configuration.md

@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ You can set the following environment variables to further configure your server
 #### Authentication
 
 - `ARGILLA_AUTH_SECRET_KEY`: The secret key used to sign the API token data. You can use `openssl rand -hex 32` to generate a 32 character string to use with this environment variable. By default a random value is generated, so if you are using more than one server worker (or more than one Argilla server) you will need to set the same value for all of them.
+- `USERNAME`: If provided, the owner username (Default: `None`).
+- `PASSWORD`: If provided, the owner password (Default: `None`).
+
+If `USERNAME` and `PASSWORD` are provided, the owner user will be created with these credentials on the server startup.
 
 #### Database
 

examples/deployments/k8s/argilla-server-deployment.yaml

@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ spec:
               value: "http://elasticsearch:9200"
             - name: ARGILLA_AUTH_SECRET_KEY
               value: "CHANGE_ME"
+            # Uncomment these lines to create owner user
+            # - name: USERNAME
+            #   value: "argilla"
+            # - name: PASSWORD
+            #   value: "12345678"
           ports:
             - containerPort: 6900
           resources: