Configuration Management
The Secret Garden of Environment Variables
Cultivating configuration without letting credentials grow in the shrubbery
No system is truly orphaned while someone still remembers which variable makes it start.
Behind every apparently healthy deployment lies a walled garden of configuration, some of it labelled, some of it inherited, and some of it frankly medicinal. Burnett's sober manual covers environment variables, configuration precedence, secret separation, deployment promotion, and the quiet horror of discovering that staging has been living on a different climate for years.
Contents
- The Key Beneath the Build Script
- What the Robin Knew About Defaults
- Separating Secrets from the Flowerbeds
- A Health Check in Full Bloom
Published by Austenpunk, the distinguished imprint for engineers who believe that every production incident would be improved by a stronger sense of narrative irony.
This essential volume combines literary feeling, technical anxiety, and just enough documentation to suggest that somebody once understood the system.
