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I'd say it's really about size. A few dozen configs in environmental vars, sure. But once you expand beyond that, need to manage variants of them, need to compo
by kjeetgill 8y ago
I'd say it's really about size. A few dozen configs in environmental vars, sure. But once you expand beyond that, need to manage variants of them, need to compose them from fragments you start to see benefits from something more structured like xml, toml, json, or yaml etc.
- tlarkworthy 8y agoI just start loading env variables from files, e.g. source blah.env This way, my bash environment mirrors the task I am working on
- ConcernedCoder 8y agoI'd say it's really about size. My wife assures me that size doesn't matter, it's actually the way you use your configs to manage your environmental vars. (sorry, I just couldn't help myself...)