diff --git a/jpo-deduplicator/pom.xml b/jpo-deduplicator/pom.xml
index 25a15bd..47ff3df 100644
--- a/jpo-deduplicator/pom.xml
+++ b/jpo-deduplicator/pom.xml
@@ -291,4 +291,46 @@
             </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>
+    <profiles>
+    <profile>
+      <id>package-jar</id>
+      <build>
+        <plugins>
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>3.2.0</version>
+            <configuration>
+              <archive>
+                <manifest>
+                  <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
+                  <classpathPrefix>lib/</classpathPrefix>
+                  <mainClass>
+                    us.dot.its.jpo.deduplicator.DeduplicatorApplication</mainClass>
+                </manifest>
+              </archive>
+            </configuration>
+          </plugin>
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+            <executions>
+              <execution>
+                <id>repackage</id>
+                <phase>none</phase>
+              </execution>
+            </executions>
+          </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+      </build>
+    </profile>
+  </profiles>
+  <!-- GitHub Artifact publishing configuration -->
+  <distributionManagement>
+    <repository>
+      <id>github</id>
+      <name>GitHub Packages</name>
+      <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/${github_organization}/jpo-deduplicator</url>
+    </repository>
+  </distributionManagement>
 </project>
diff --git a/sample.env b/sample.env
index 35cbb87..fa66e3c 100644
--- a/sample.env
+++ b/sample.env
@@ -1,7 +1,20 @@
 ### COMMON variables - START ###
 # (Required) The IP address of Docker host machine which can be found by running "ifconfig"
 # Hint: look for "inet addr:" within "eth0" or "en0" for OSX
-DOCKER_HOST_IP=""
+
+
+# Set the HOST IP of where the containers are running
+DOCKER_HOST_IP=
+
+# Set to the directory where the source code is. Generally the location of this file.
+DOCKER_HOST_DIR=
+
+
+KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS=${DOCKER_HOST_IP}:9092
+
+# GitHub properties for pulling the latest version of the JPO-ODE
+MAVEN_GITHUB_TOKEN=
+MAVEN_GITHUB_ORG=usdot-jpo-ode
 
 
 # Docker compose restart policy: https://docs.docker.com/engine/containers/start-containers-automatically/
@@ -9,19 +22,59 @@ RESTART_POLICY="on-failure:3"
 
 # Available profiles:
 # - all
+#   - deduplicator
 #       - deduplicator
-# - deduplicator
-#       - deduplicator
-# EXAMPLE: COMPOSE_PROFILES=deduplicator
+
+# Available profiles:
+# - all
+#   - cm_api_full
+#       - conflictmonitor
+#       - geojsonconverter
+#       - cm_gui
+#       - cm_api
+#       - keycloak
+#       - mongo
+#       - ode
+#       - adm
+#	- kafka
+#   - cm_base
+#       - conflictmonitor-build
+#   - cm_build
+#       - conflictmonitor-build
+#   - cm_release
+#       - conflictmonitor-release
+#   - ode_geojsonconverter
+#       - geojsonconverter
+#       - ode
+#       - adm
+
 COMPOSE_PROFILES=deduplicator
 
 
+# Set to "CONFLUENT" if broker is a Confluent Cloud broker
+KAFKA_TYPE=
+
+# Set to actual Confluent Cloud access key and secret values for SASL authentication
+CONFLUENT_KEY=
+CONFLUENT_SECRET=
+
+
 ### COMMON variables - END ###
 
 
 
 ### KAFKA variables - START ###
 KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS=${DOCKER_HOST_IP}:9092
+KAFKA_LOG_RETENTION_HOURS=3
+KAFKA_LOG_RETENTION_BYTES=10737418240 # 10GB
+
+# Variables for creating kafka topics:
+KAFKA_TOPIC_PARTITIONS=1
+KAFKA_TOPIC_REPLICAS=1
+KAFKA_TOPIC_MIN_INSYNC_REPLICAS=1
+KAFKA_TOPIC_RETENTION_MS=300000
+KAFKA_TOPIC_DELETE_RETENTION_MS=3600000
+### KAFKA variables - END ###
 
 
 ### DEDUPLICATOR variables - START ###