Questions tagged [environment]
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How do I decide whether an option belongs in an environment variable, command-line option, or both?
I am working on an executable program - an application or utility. At some point, I want to introduce a new option (to be considered at run-time rather than build-time); the option may be boolean, ...
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How to manage working directory in interactive development environments like Jupyter Notebook?
I'm having trouble with managing the working directory in Jupyter Notebook. For example, I have a .py script that requires me to change the working directory to its directory to run it properly. I've ...
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ASP.NET Core configuration system: Isn't the default configuration prone to naming conflicts in environment variables?
I'm trying to wrap my head around the ASP.NET Core Configuration system.
If I understand the default configuration correctly, non-prefixed environment variables will override appsettings.json entries.
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Maintaining modularity while keeping (secret) configuration separate from application code
This is more a curiosity/query-for-information than anything; apologies if it's thus a little malformed:
This is relevant to a useful API-querying library that can be shared across multiple teams ...
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When does it make sense to have an implicit contract between a runtime env. and an internally used library?
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Decisions according to environment
I am trying to convince others that the following first code snippet is bad practice and the second snippet is best practice.
Bad practice:
// There is only one implementation of Adapter
public ...
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What’s the standard used to deploy .env files?
I used docker to containerize the node.js express app and used GitHub action to add the .env file in the container. I googled this method when I was doing the DEV project. But I think that if someone ...
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Better management of ~1000 lines of environment configuration properties?
Background/Our situation:
Our environment has many components, including database, Windows Server, Linux, ETL platform, Scheduler Platform, and about 5 other types (so 8 total components = code ...
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How to design config files for each environment in github?
I have a list of application configs and business configs in a particular root folder inside our git repository.
Below is our current structure as of now:
We have a root Data folder and inside that ...
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Is there justification for testing only master in an integration environment?
We have a series of environments; Let's call them Development, Integration, Business and Production.
As a rule, we do not let master get deployed beyond Development, meaning any code which is to be ...
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How to configure front-end web application from environment?
I'm working on a relatively thin front-end web application that talks to an API. Depending on where this front-end application is served from (CI server, staging server, production server, etc.) I ...
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How do I handle 2 or more parallel development environments on different machines?
I have a Windows PC and a Ubuntu laptop that I use for development. One of my main issues is that I switch between them multiple times a day, but because they are different machines, I am unable to ...
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How to organize projects in AWS?
In our team, we are using AWS as our main cloud provider and currently, we have 3 projects hosted on their platform.
We are about to have 2 more projects in the next weeks, but first, we want to ...
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How to model a user management system that deals with both pre-production and production databases?
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I am currently working on a user management applications (UMA) that manages a data warehouse security management (users, rights etc.).
The data warehouse has production databases (and ...
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What goes into .env file?
Working on a huge application with lots of legacy code, I often encounter environment "checks":
db_name = Rails.env.production? ? 'staging_db' : 'production_db'
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desired_processes_count = Rails....
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