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diff --git a/docs/content/en/configuration/methods/introduction.md b/docs/content/en/configuration/methods/introduction.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..dc21fdc44 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/content/en/configuration/methods/introduction.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +title: "Methods" +description: "Methods of Configuration." +lead: "Authelia has a layered configuration model. This section describes how to implement configuration." +date: 2022-03-20T12:52:27+11:00 +draft: false +images: [] +menu: +  configuration: +    parent: "methods" +weight: 101100 +toc: true +--- + +## Layers + +Authelia has several methods of configuration available to it. The order of precedence is as follows: + +1. [Secrets](secrets.md) +2. [Environment Variables](environment.md) +3. [Files](files.md) (in order of them being specified) + +This order of precedence puts higher weight on things higher in the list. This means anything specified in the +[files](files.md) is overridden by [environment variables](environment.md) if specified, and anything specified by +[environment variables](environment.md) is overridden by [secrets](secrets.md) if specified. + +[YAML]: https://yaml.org/  | 
