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You've never seen software that will use a default value, instead of refusing to operate, when a particular environment variable isn't present in the environmen
by thaumasiotes 2mo ago
You've never seen software that will use a default value, instead of refusing to operate, when a particular environment variable isn't present in the environment?
- grey-area 2mo agoNo I’ve never seen software that broke because someone added a config key.
- thaumasiotes 2mo agoAre you talking about altering environment variables in a system, or altering software to read different environment variables? I read jt2190 as talking about the former.
- grey-area 2mo agoI don’t use env variables for this and many other reasons. They seem like a spectacularly bad idea for config, as the op noted. I’m talking about altering a config which you control - adding to a config is pretty risk free if it is your program, altering a config of course is not.
- KnightHawk3 2mo agoI was deploying some dotnet app and it broke because the devs baked a config key into the image that was otherwise unset, which enabled it trying to start a SSL endpoint without a cert, thus breaking the app.