Re:Show HN: Config.ly – Never hardcode your data again
by specialist on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:42PM
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Further, a lot of "configuration" can just be the environment (context). Isn't that precisely what DNS is for?
An instance of an app (process, service, whatever) doesn't need to know that it's "dev", "test", "prod". Just have it look for "the database" and change the /etc/hosts (or equiv) as needed.
My impression is that istio (?) is supposed to formalize this approach. That'd be nice.
I'm so done having this conversation with teammates. Yet another reenactment of the "why use version control" war. There's always some stubborn refusal to join the third millennium. Because reasons. It's too complicated. No one knows how to do that. It's hard to debug. Whatever.
Every new cohort believes they're the first to invent configuration management.
An instance of an app (process, service, whatever) doesn't need to know that it's "dev", "test", "prod". Just have it look for "the database" and change the /etc/hosts (or equiv) as needed.
My impression is that istio (?) is supposed to formalize this approach. That'd be nice.
I'm so done having this conversation with teammates. Yet another reenactment of the "why use version control" war. There's always some stubborn refusal to join the third millennium. Because reasons. It's too complicated. No one knows how to do that. It's hard to debug. Whatever.
Every new cohort believes they're the first to invent configuration management.