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Configuration
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This software component can be configured via environmental variables, which are very useful in a containerized environment.

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| Variable           | Default                  | Description                                                                                                                                                         |
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| `LOCAL_UUID`       | **N/A**                  | The UUID of the consumer system. Must be the same as the API's                                                                                                      |
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| `RUN_INTERVAL`     | 10                       | Interval between synchronizations, and local ip checks.                                                                                                             |
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| `CUSTOMER_TIMEOUT` | 30                       | Default timeout to be set for a consumer. If the timeout expires, the consumer will be considered invalid, and no further attempts will be made to contact with it. |
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| `REDIS_URL`        | redis://localhost:6379/0 | URL of the Redis database shared with the consumer api                                                                                                              |
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| `INITIAL_SERVERS`  | **N/A**                  | A comma separated list of the initially known consumers (Can be empty, but must be specified)                                                                       |
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