The osseus configuration module parses:
- Environment variables
- Environment specific files
- AWS Secrets
- CLI arguments
The result is an object which will be used by other osseus modules.
Note: all keys will be lowercased in the result object
$ npm install osseus-config
First, create index.js
:
const OsseusConfig = require('osseus-config')
const config = await OsseusConfig.init()
console.log(config)
You can use the hostInfo
property in the osseus.config object.
In case your app is running on:
- localhost
-
hostname
is the machine name
-
- aws
-
hostname
is the instance id
-
These props can be accessed by:
osseus.config.hostInfo.hostname
and osseus.config.hostInfo.pid
Environment variables must have a CFG_
prefix in order to be parsed by osseus-config
Running:
$ export CFG_SOME_VAR=value
$ node index.js
Will result in:
{ some_var: 'value', keys: [ 'some_var' ] }
Environment files should be placed under /config
folder in the root of the application.
In order for environment files to be parsed, need to define ENV
variable matching the file name.
Create /config/LOCAL.js
module.exports = {
DEBUG: true,
OSSEUS_LOGGER_LOG_LEVEL: 'debug',
OSSEUS_SERVER_PORT: '8888'
}
Running:
$ export CFG_ENV=LOCAL
$ node index.js
Will result in:
{ env: 'LOCAL',
debug: true,
osseus_logger: { log_level: 'debug' },
osseus_server: { port: 8888 },
keys: [ 'env', 'debug', 'osseus_logger', 'osseus_server' ] }
Note that keys starting with "osseus_" are broken into objects, more on this later
In order to use AWS Secrets need to define the following variables:
-
ENV
(orCFG_ENV
)- no default
-
APPLICATION_NAME
(orCFG_APPLICATION_NAME
)- no default
-
AWS_SECRETS_ENDPOINT
(orCFG_AWS_SECRETS_ENDPOINT
)- default is
https://secretsmanager.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
- default is
-
AWS_REGION
(orCFG_AWS_REGION
)- default is
eu-west-1
- default is
When all relevant variables are defined, the secrets file names should be ENV/APPLICATION_NAME_*
Another secrets file which will be parsed if exists is ENV/GLOBAL_*
Running:
$ export CFG_ENV=QA
$ export CFG_APPLICATION_NAME=MY_APP
$ node index.js
Will look for QA/MY_APP_*
and QA/GLOBAL_*
in AWS secrets manager and add the keys to the config result object.
osseus-config
is using yargs to parse CLI arguments.
Running:
$ node index.js --PARAM_1 hello --PARAM_2 123 --PARAM_3 ["'something'"]
Will result in:
{ param_1: 'hello',
param_2: 123,
param_3: [ 'something' ],
keys: [ 'param_1', 'param_2', 'param_3' ] }
- CLI arguments
- AWS Secrets
- Environment specific files
- Environment variables
Create /config/LOCAL.js
module.exports = {
MY_PARAM: from_file
}
Running:
$ export CFG_ENV=LOCAL
$ export CFG_MY_PARAM=from_env
$ node index.js --MY_PARAM from_cli
Will result in:
{ my_param: 'from_cli',
env: 'LOCAL',
keys: [ 'my_param', 'env' ] }
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