config-db

config-db is developer first, JSON based configuration management database (CMDB)

Setup

make build

Run as server

Starting the server will run the migrations and start scraping in background (The default-schedule configuration will run scraping every 60 minutes if configuration is not explicitly specified).

DB_URL=postgres://<username>:<password>@localhost:5432/<db_name> ./.bin/config-db serve --db-migrations

Scape config

To explicitly run scraping with a particular configuration:

./.bin/config-db run <scrapper-config.yaml> -vvv

See fixtures/ for example scraping configurations.

Principles

• JSON Based - Configuration is stored in JSON, with changes recorded as JSON patches that enables highly structured search.
• SPAM Free - Not all configuration data is useful, and overly verbose change histories are difficult to navigate.
• GitOps Ready - Configuration should be stored in Git, config-db enables the extraction of configuration out of Git repositories with branch/environment awareness.
• Topology Aware - Configuration can often have an inheritance or override hierarchy.

Capabilities

• View and search change history in any dimension (node, zone, environment, application, technology)
• Compare and diff configuration across environments.

Configuration Sources

• AWS
  • EC2 (including trusted advisor, compliance and patch reporting)
  • VPC
  • IAM
• Kubernetes
  • Pods
  • Secrets / ConfigMaps
  • LoadBalancers / Ingress
  • Nodes
• Configuration Files
  • YAML/JSON
  • Properties files
• Dependency Graphs
  • pom.xml
  • package.json
  • go.mod
• Infrastructure as Code
  • Terraform
  • CloudFormation
  • Ansible

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md