Configuration management ​

Nickel & Doppler are interesting.

Links ​

• mgmt - Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management. (HN)
• Chef - Powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale.
• Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?
• Starlank - Language intended for use as a configuration language.
• Skycfg - Extension library for the Starlark language that adds support for constructing Protocol Buffer messages.
• Your configs suck? Try a real programming language. (2020) (HN) (Lobsters)
• mackup - Keep your application settings in sync.
• Ground Control to Major TOML: Why Buildpacks Use a Most Peculiar Format (Lobsters)
• Star: Go but in Python? (2020) (Lobsters)
• The creeping scourge of tooling config files in project root directories (HN)
• That's a lot of YAML (Lobsters)
• Why broot is switching from TOML to Hjson for its configuration files (2020) (Lobsters)
• carvel-ytt - YAML templating tool that works on YAML structure instead of text. (Web)
• Cumin - Structured, Typed and Mini-Programmable Configuration Language. (Docs)
• Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages (2021) (HN)
• Code is Data is YAML (2021)
• BundleWrap - Config management with Python. (Web)
• Don’t use environment variables for configuration (2021) (HN)
• Beemo - Centralized configuration layer for dev tools. (Web)
• LIBUCL - Universal configuration library parser.
• Jerikan: a configuration management system for network teams (2021)
• Sharec - Store your configs in one place and share between projects without any pain. (Docs)
• Gura - File format for configuration files. Readable as YAML and simple as TOML. (Web)
• My wish-list for the next YAML (2021)
• Virgo - Graph-based Declarative Configuration Language. (Article)
• Configuration (and configuration files) is not and cannot be generic (2021) (Lobsters)
• Quinine - Library to create and manage configuration files, especially for machine learning projects.
• The KDL Document Language (HN)
• Apollo - Reliable configuration management system suitable for microservice configuration management scenarios. (Web)
• envy - Use envy to manage environment variables with your OS keychain.
• OmegaConf - Flexible Python configuration system. The last one you will ever need.
• Dotenv CLI - Command line tool that syncs your .env files across machines and between your team members. Like 1Password, but for developers.
• carvel-imgpkg - Store application configuration files in Docker/OCI registries.
• YAML: It's Time to Move On (HN)
• The Perfect Configuration Format? Try TypeScript (HN)
• jk - Configuration as Code with ECMAScript. (Web)
• dxcfg - Configuration as code tooling for the masses. Opinionated port of jkcfg API to deno.
• Heptagon of Configuration (2019)
• Itamae - Simple and lightweight configuration management tool inspired by Chef.
• Rubric - Linter Config Initialization for Python.
• Holistic Configuration Management at Facebook (2015) (Lobsters)
• ev - Tool for versioning, securing and easily sharing environment variables.
• confd - Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul.
• konfik - Abstract over configuration with TypeScript. You can think about it like "Terraform for config files".
• jinsi - JSON/YAML homoiconic templating language.
• ymlx - Command-line YAML processing tool.
• env-cmd - Setting environment variables from a file.
• Ask HN: How do you share your personal setup over different computers? (2022)
• TOML - Tom's Obvious Minimal Language. (Lobsters)
• hcl2json - Convert from HCL to JSON.
• zenv - Enhanced env command to manage environment variables in CLI.
• Doppler - Sync environment variables at scale. (Docs) (CLI)
• Modenv - CLI to easily manage .env files and keep them consistent. It is simple, fast, error resistant, and composable.
• envplat - Self-hosted environment variable management platform.
• Ask HN: How do you sync your computer’s development configurations/environment? (2022)
• Kusion Configuration Language (KCL) - Constraint-based record & functional language mainly used in configuration and policy scenarios.
• Recode - CLI to create remote development environments in your cloud provider account easily.
• Validate Your YAML (with CUE) (2022)
• YAMLLint - Linter for YAML files.
• Ketolang - Future of general purpose Сonfiguration languages. Side-effect-less dialect of Kotlin.
• Yamale - Schema and validator for YAML.
• quickenv - Unintrusive environment manager.
• Cue - Validate and define text-based and dynamic configuration. (Web) (Cuetorials) (Playground) (How CUE Wins (2021)) (HN) (Tweet) (Cue LSP)
• Envconsul - Launch a subprocess with environment variables using data from Hashicorp Consul and Vault.
• Why We Switched from YAML to TypeScript for Our Configuration (2022)
• Smithy - Language for defining services and SDKs. (Docs)
• oson - Structured object notation.
• yamlctl - Tool to modify YAMLs without losing (most of) comment lines.
• KDL Document Language - XML-like semantics that looks like you're invoking a bunch of CLI commands. (KDL-Script)
• yamlfmt - Extensible command line tool or library to format YAML files.
• Configs should be typed
• rset - Configure systems using any scripting language.
• Pets - Configuration management system for Pets, not Cattle. (Lobsters) (HN)
• CUE For Network Configurations
• Imperative configs are out; Declarative configs are in (2022) (HN)
• Use .config to store your project configs
• The Yaml document from hell (2023) (HN)
• TOML CLI - CLI for editing and querying TOML files.
• yam - Sweet little formatter for YAML.
• Configu - Simple, modern, and generic standard for managing and collaborating software configurations.
• Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located (HN)
• TySON - TypeScript as a Configuration Language. (Lobsters)
• fpk - Functional configuration management with TS.