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-title: Variables
-weight: 2
+title: Manager Configuration
+weight: 3
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-For managing default parameters for Blender and FFmpeg, as well as for
-mixed-platform render farms, Flamenco uses *variables*.
+Flamenco Manager reads its configuration from `flamenco-manager.yaml`, located
+next to the `flamenco-manager` executable. The previous chapters
+([Shared Storage][storage] and [Variables][variables]) also described parts of
+that configuration file.
 
-Each variable consists of:
+[storage]: {{< ref "shared-storage" >}}
+[variables]: {{< ref "usage/variables/multi-platform" >}}
 
-- Its **name**: just a sequence of letters, like `blender` or `whateveryouwant`.
-- Its **values**: per *platform* and *audience*, described below.
+## Example Configuration
 
-The variables are configured in `flamenco-manager.yaml`.
-
-Here is an example `blender` variable:
+This is an example `flamenco-manager.yaml` file:
 
 ```yaml
+_meta:
+  version: 3
+manager_name: Flamenco Manager
+database: flamenco-manager.sqlite
+listen: :8080
+autodiscoverable: true
+local_manager_storage_path: ./flamenco-manager-storage
+shared_storage_path: /path/to/storage
+shaman:
+  enabled: true
+  garbageCollect:
+    period: 24h0m0s
+    maxAge: 744h0m0s
+    extraCheckoutPaths: []
+task_timeout: 10m0s
+worker_timeout: 1m0s
+blocklist_threshold: 3
+task_fail_after_softfail_count: 3
 variables:
   blender:
     values:
-    - platform: linux
-      value: /home/sybren/Downloads/blenders/blender-3.2.2-release/blender
-    - platform: windows
-      value: B:\Downloads\blenders\blender-3.2.2-release\blender.exe
-    - platform: darwin
-      value: /home/sybren/Downloads/blenders/blender-3.2.2-release/blender
+      - platform: linux
+        value: blender
+      - platform: windows
+        value: blender
+      - platform: darwin
+        value: blender
+  blenderArgs:
+    values:
+      - platform: all
+        value: -b -y
 ```
 
-Whenever a Worker gets a task that contains `{blender}`, that'll be replaced by
-the appropriate value for that worker.
-
-## Platform
-
-**The goal of the variables system is to cater for different platforms.**
-Blender will very likely be installed in different locations on Windows and
-Linux. It might even require some different parameters for your farm, depending
-on the platform. The variables system allows you to configure this.
-
-The platform can be `windows`, `linux`, or `darwin` for macOS. Other platforms
-are also allowed, if you happen to use them in your farm.
-
-## Two-way Variables for Mixed-platform Farms
-
-Variables are not just used to point to specific things, like `blender` above.
-They can also tell Flamenco that the path `/media/shared/flamenco` on Linux is
-the same as `S:\flamenco` on Windows, or `/Volumes/shared/flamenco` on macOS.
-This is documented further in [Two-way Variables for Multi-Platform Support][two-way].
-
-## Custom Job Types
-
-This documentation section focuses on pre-existing variables, `blender` and
-`blenderArgs`. There is nothing special about these. Apart from being part of
-Flamenco's default configuration, that is. When you go the more advanced route
-of creating your own [custom job types][jobtypes] you're free to create your own
-set of variables to suit your needs.
-
-[jobtypes]: {{< ref "usage/job-types" >}}
-[two-way]: {{< ref "usage/variables/multi-platform" >}}
-
-## Advanced: Audience
-
-The audience of a value is who that value is for: `workers`, `users`, or `all`
-if there is no difference in value for workers and users.
-
-This is an advanced feature, and was introduced for in-the-cloud render farms.
-In such situations, the location where the workers store the rendered frames
-might be different from where users go to pick them up.
-
-- `all`: values that are used for all audiences. This is the default, and is
-  what's used in the above example (because there is no `audience` mentioned).
-- `users`: values are used when submitting jobs from Blender and showing them in
-  the web interface.
-- `workers`: values that are used when sending tasks to workers.
+The usual way to create a configuration file is simply by starting Flamenco
+Manager. If there is no config file yet, it will start the setup assistant to
+create one. If for any reasons the setup assistant is not usable for you, you
+can use the above example to create `flamenco-manager.yaml` yourself.