envredis

envredis runs processes in a modified environment by reading environment variables from a Redis database.

envredis is directly inspired by envconsul, and indirectly by envdir and its multiple ports.

envredis is not production-ready.

Installation

envredis is written in Go. Check out the official documentation for how to get started with the Go toolchain.

go get github.com/benwebber/envredis
go build github.com/benwebber/envredis
cp envredis /path/in/$PATH

Usage

envredis stores configuration in a Redis hash. Choose a name for the hash and set some initial variables:

$ envredis -k app set ENVIRONMENT=staging
$ envredis -k app set RATE_LIMIT=0

Run the process using the new configuration.

$ envredis -k app run env
...
ENVIRONMENT=staging
RATE_LIMIT=0

Of course, envredis doesn't care where the environment variables came from. We can configure the environment using any Redis client.

$ redis-cli HSET app AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE

$ envredis -k app list
ENVIRONMENT=staging
RATE_LIMIT=0
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE

Finally, envredis assumes run is the default action, so the following works just as well:

$ envredis -k app env
...
ENVIRONMENT=staging
RATE_LIMIT=0
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE

Configuration

Parameter	Environment Variable	Description	Example
-u/--url	ENVREDIS_REDIS_URL	URL of Redis instance	redis://localhost:6379 (default)
-k/--key	ENVREDIS_REDIS_KEY	name of key storing application configuration	next-big-thing-production (default: current directory)
--posix	ENVREDIS_POSIX	transform variable names to adhere to the POSIX standard (valid for set, list, and run)	--posix or ENVREDIS_POSIX=1

Managing the environment

envredis provides a number of commands to manage an application's environment.

set

Set an environment variable.

set accepts variables as NAME=value or NAME value.

$ envredis set FOO=bar
$ envredis set BAR baz

get

Return the value of an environment variable.

$ envredis set BAZ=quux
$ envredis get BAZ
quux

list

List environment variables.

$ envredis list
FOO=bar
BAR=baz
BAZ=quux

delete

Delete an environment variable.

$ envredis delete FOO
$ envredis list
BAR=baz
BAZ=quux

clear

Clear all environment variables.

$ envredis clear
$ envredis list

Contributing

envredis is very rough around the edges. Feel free to open issues for bugs or questions.

Pull requests are more than welcome.