Questions tagged [configuration-management]
Configuration management (CM) is a systems engineering process for establishing and maintaining consistency of a product's performance, functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design and operational information throughout its life.
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Configurations stored in database & GitOps
I recently came upon the concept of GitOps. One idea that's central to GitOps is the use of static configurations (e.g. Git repositories are the source of truth for configurations).
In my distributed ...
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why would one use the "Functional Options" pattern in go?
I just learned about the Functional Options pattern in golang.
what are the benefits of using it over just allowing to pass a config struct and just overriding the default values provided in the ...
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Allow command execution in config file?
My friend and I are developing a screenshot tool for Linux where the screenshot can be saved into a clipboard by using an external tool like xclip or wl-clipboard.
Since there are even more clipboard ...
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How to manage configurations for on-premise kubernetes services?
I have a series of .NET kubernetes services that all need to retrieve dynamically a series of configurations from a database, since the deployment of this infrastructure is going to be on-prem for ...
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Using Hashicorp Vault for storage of non-secret data
I hope this is the correct sub StackExchange to post this question.
In our company, we are currently using a Spring Cloud Config server for Spring boot apps to be able to fetch their configuration ...
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Where to put DLL specific settings?
I'm not sure how to manage configuration settings in a C#/.NET environment. For simplicity lets say I have 3 assemblies: My MainApplication is the project being started and containing the business ...
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Infrequent config set up
There is a string field x, contains value a/b/c/d
The order of a/b/c/d is changed infrequently , only once a year or several years.
What is the best approach to store this config?
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app.config vs. appsettings.json in WPF .NET Framework app
I am building a .NET Framework WPF application, however, I want to use IConfigurationBuilder, which is a part of the newer (.NET Core and up) Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration namespace. My ...
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How to handle root paths in a custom package?
I am writing a custom python package, which produces some files in a certain directory. This directory I call root_path and should be set by the user. So basically, it should be a conf variable but ...
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Best practice for knowing the link between binaries (*.exe and *.dll) and their source code?
I'm working in a company, where we work with a kind of plug-and-play system:
An executable is put inside a central directory, and there is a Modules directory, where DLL files can be inserted, which ...
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Handling/queueing a Windows-Service restart to apply new changes
I'm working on a project that has the purpose to execute tasks in intervals.
The tasks and it's properties can be configured through the Configuration Website. The data is being stored in the ...
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Storing different configuration for the same application in a repository
I just wonder how do you deal with this scenario. Let's say you have an application that uses configuration files that are loaded right after the application starts. Configuration files store - lets ...
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What are the best practices for storing application properties?
I have been working with many applications and had different approaches to storing application properties (configurations).
The problem is were to store different types of configs.
Configs which ...
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Inject configuration files into the injector is it an antipattern?
I'm trying to design a system that inject configuration of each component into each class.
project structure:
|features
--|component-a
component-a.service.js
component-a.config....
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Reloading external application configuration
I have an application with an external configuration. Basically, there are a few basic environment variables, then the rest of the application's configuration gets pulled from AWS S3, is checked for ...
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