Don't do it with bash. You can at least use Ruby, Python to make an API for it, or use configuration management. They really didn't think about being (local) ru

Don't do it with bash. You can at least use Ruby, Python to make an API for it, or use configuration management. They really didn't think about being (local) runtime configurable for the dev/ops UX being too ultra *NIX purist with single file plain text configuration. At least it could have a plain text watch directory like daemontools for dynamic reconfiguration.