confd

Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul

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ecliptik·May 10, 2016

Vault looks like a winner for managing environment variables and secrets for container orchestration. Rancher is adding support for it in the near future [1], and confd already has it integrated [2]. IMHO Hashicorp has a good track record of delivering quality products for devops (packer, vagrant) and their documentation is quite nice. 1. https://youtu.be/ZovLwCvb2Is?t=1h7m7s 2. https://github.com/kelseyhightower/confd/blob/master/docs/qu...

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kelseyhightower·Jan 28, 2016

I don't think looking for better is the right way to go about this. There are many things that are different in Go which you might find a nice fit for a specific use case. Also, nothing wrong with learning another language to increase the number of tools in your toolbox. I'll list a few use-cases where I found Go to be a great fit for me. Building command line tools: Both Go and Python are great for building command line tools. One place where Go is different is that it's super easy to produce statically linked, self-contained, binaries. The result is less dependancies to manage at install time. Many users find tools distributed in a self-contained binary easier to get started with -- no need to have the right runtime (python 2.x) installed. Example: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/confd Building web services: I'm always building small

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services to solve a problem and this is one area where Go really shines for me. Out of the box Go ships with a "high performance" web server. Just import the "net/http" package and off you go. While the built-in web server is not a full replacement for something like Nginx (rate limiting, rewrite rules, etc), it does allow you to go really far without the need of an external web server for performance. Example: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/coreos-ipxe-server There are other benefits to Go like performance gains if you are willing to trade in the flexibility you get from a dynamic language like Python and migrate to a strongly typed language that must be compiled before running your code. While Go is strongly typed it does not get in the way of getting things done. The Go compiler is fast and stays out of the way. I'm not sure what your background is, but I did a talk a few years ago at GopherCon 2014, "Go for Sysadmins" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyRbHhHFZh8), that provides a nice introduction into why I like Go and some live demos to drive key points home. Hope this helps.

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olalonde·Jan 18, 2016

> These kind of systems have their own configs, be it elasticsearch.yml or my.cnf. The Dockerfile format is completely fucking useless at this kind of thing. confd is meant to solve this problem [0]. We use it at work to keep our bitcoind server configuration in sync with etcd [1]. Deis (the PaaS) also relies heavily on it, to generate nginx configuration files for example [2]. [0] https://github.com/kelseyhightower/confd [1] https://github.com/olalonde/coreos-bitcoind [2] https://github.com/deis/deis/tree/master/router/rootfs/etc/c...

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