A Simple RESTful Config Server, supporting the usage elements of Spring Boot and Node "config" in Go

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Introduction

An simple config publishing server, supporting the usage elements of Spring Boot and Node "config", including:

• json, yaml and Java property files,
• cascading value over-rides using, GO_ENV, GO_APP_INSTANCE and GO_PROFILES_ACTIVE
• placeholder resolution (or variable expansion),

Usage

To use the module, go get the module as so:

go get github.com/alt-golang/config-server
go run .

Internal Config Location

The Config Server is configured internally from the config/internal directory relative to the working directory

Server Config Location

The Config Server defaults to publishing config from the config directory relative to the working directory, but can be configured with using the internal setting as below:

config: 
  dir: "otherLocation" 

File Publishing and Precedence

The module follows the file loading and precedence rules of the popular Node config defaults, with additional rules in the style of Spring Boot.

Files are loaded and over-ridden from the config folder in the following order:

• default.( json | yml | yaml | props | properties )
• application.( json | yml | yaml | props | properties )
• {GO_ENV}.( json | yml | yaml | props | properties )
• {GO_ENV}-{GO_APP_INSTANCE}.( json | yml | yaml | props | properties )
• {GO_ENV}-{GO_APP_INSTANCE}.( json | yml | yaml | props | properties )
• {GO_ENV}-{GO_APP_INSTANCE}.( json | yml | yaml | props | properties )
• application-{GO_PROFILES_ACTIVE[0]}.( json | yml | yaml | props | properties )
• application-{GO_PROFILES_ACTIVE[1]}.( json | yml | yaml | props | properties )

Environment variables and command line arguments, are not published by the service, as it is intended only as a networked config discovery service.

API

The API URI format follows the form : /:GO_ENV/:GO_APP_INSTANCE/*GO_PROFILES_ACTIVE?path=my.key where trailing / act as additional comma-separated profiles.

if the path query param is ommitted, the full config set is returned by default.

License

May be freely distributed under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2022 Craig Parravicini