I feel similarly about environment variables. Envvar issues are a pain to debug in cloud VMs and CI pipelines. Oftentimes, changing the envvar value doesn’t pr

I feel similarly about environment variables. Envvar issues are a pain to debug in cloud VMs and CI pipelines. Oftentimes, changing the envvar value doesn’t propagate without a container restart anyway. I wish that instead of all these vaults and similar tools, cloud providers would let me pipe in a flat text file and read config from there. Anything that requires a more complex setup should live with the code. In many scenarios, the increased cognitive burden that comes with these hierarchical config files, DSLs, and rule engines is just not worth the yield. Redeploying isn’t hard unless we’re talking about a multi-region, globally distributed system.