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Parameter Store is rather cumbersome and heavyweight for the kind of quick iteration you can do with EnvKey, and of course it's AWS-specific. I do use Parameter
by danmaas 9y ago
Parameter Store is rather cumbersome and heavyweight for the kind of quick iteration you can do with EnvKey, and of course it's AWS-specific. I do use Parameter Store to "inject" the EnvKey into newly-booted EC2 instances, but then EnvKey takes over from there.
- nawitus 9y agoHow is it cumbersome and heavyweight? If the app is already using AWS, it's trivial to start using the parameter store.
- bdcravens 9y agoI was able to abstract it away into a pretty simple Ruby class (for a Rails app) that writes an encrypted S3 file. That file is loaded by my containers into ENV (currently using ECS). Just a couple of method calls to update.