Martin/others, Chef has a registry service for stuff just like this. It is very powerful.
They show a capistrano script that doesn't know the target of the deploy. It simply asks for the app server list. And having all these database passwords in the environment seems a little disconcerting. Is this what ZooKeeper provides? What else out there could Heroku use as a reference? -Keenan On Monday, October 29, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Martin Wawrusch wrote: > To chime in here a bit, > > what we and a lot of others I know of would really like to see is a separate, > distributed config store that securely stores and manages config variables, > with a nice admin api and a way to track changes and update servers in > real-time (socket.io (http://socket.io) comes to mind). It's definitely > something we would pay for. The only thing that would be stored in env vars > is some secret key to access the config store. > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Keenan Brock <kee...@thebrocks.net > (mailto:kee...@thebrocks.net)> wrote: > > Hi Jay, > > > > I really like storing config vars in .env > > adding the file to gitignore and it doesn't go into the database > > > > If you didn't get enough from the heroku-config gem, there are more details > > are in a heroku article: > > > > https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/config-vars#using-foreman > > > > Since foreman knows about the .env file (also written by David), locally it > > is quite simple to use. And it acts as a recipe to remember what to publish. > > > > If you are using pow, you may need to add add "source .env" to your .powenv > > > > you may want to check in a .env.sample file, much the same way you create a > > database.sample.yml file. > > So it is quick for people to get up to speed, but the secrets are not > > checked in. > > > > --Keenan > > > > On Monday, October 29, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Jay Vyas wrote: > > > > > It would be nice if heroku gave us a "bootstrap" script that could be > > > uploaded and downloaded, that came with default templates and commands > > > that we could toggle (like setting env variables and stuff). Does > > > anything like this exist already? Such a paradigm would be great for > > > adding API keys and stuff as env variables . > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Heroku" group. > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > (mailto:heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com) > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Heroku" group. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > (mailto:heroku%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com) > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Heroku" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > (mailto:heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com) > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to heroku+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en_US?hl=en
