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Re:The Twelve-Factor App by twic on Friday October 13, 2023 @10:25AM (#37870987)
Makes sense. But this is exactly what i was saying: the tooling you're using makes it easy to set environment variables, and doesn't make it easy to add config files, so in this case, environment variables are easier to use than config files.

But there's no fundamental reason for that to be the case. You could imagine a very nearby parallel universe where Kubernetes config files don't let you set environment variables, but do let you inject files. In this universe, you can see other deployment approaches that make config files easier (Puppet and suchlike). And if you're building something from scratch, you can make the choice.

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Re:The Twelve-Factor App by aniforprez on Friday October 13, 2023 @11:05AM (#37871456)
Well... yeah but in the universe we live in, env variables are the most convenient, interoperable way of configuring apps and work on almost every platform. I guess I could work on a way to sit and dump config files into my apps but what's the point when env vars work well and are convenient to use right now?
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