diff --git a/.env b/.env
index 9e5dbd79ee4f..e92f7f3b774e 100644
--- a/.env
+++ b/.env
@@ -82,6 +82,15 @@
 # Enable to allow p2p mode
 # LOCALAI_P2P=true
 
+# Enable to use federated mode
+# LOCALAI_FEDERATED=true
+
+# Enable to start federation server
+# FEDERATED_SERVER=true
+
+# Define to use federation token
+# TOKEN=""
+
 ### Watchdog settings
 ###
 # Enables watchdog to kill backends that are inactive for too much time
diff --git a/docs/content/docs/features/distributed_inferencing.md b/docs/content/docs/features/distributed_inferencing.md
index 254de0925dc7..71d29f392619 100644
--- a/docs/content/docs/features/distributed_inferencing.md
+++ b/docs/content/docs/features/distributed_inferencing.md
@@ -129,6 +129,9 @@ There are options that can be tweaked or parameters that can be set using enviro
 
 | Environment Variable | Description |
 |----------------------|-------------|
+| **LOCALAI_P2P** | Set to "true" to enable p2p |
+| **LOCALAI_FEDERATED** | Set to "true" to enable federated mode |
+| **FEDERATED_SERVER** | Set to "true" to enable federated server |
 | **LOCALAI_P2P_DISABLE_DHT** | Set to "true" to disable DHT and enable p2p layer to be local only (mDNS) |
 | **LOCALAI_P2P_ENABLE_LIMITS** | Set to "true" to enable connection limits and resources management (useful when running with poor connectivity or want to limit resources consumption) |
 | **LOCALAI_P2P_LISTEN_MADDRS** | Set to comma separated list of multiaddresses to override default libp2p 0.0.0.0 multiaddresses |