Centralized Configuration

Kind: pattern

Layer: Execution Core

Record: architecture:centralized-configuration

Severity: contextual

Scope: service, platform, runtime

Canonical: Ontology

A design pattern that keeps every service's configuration in one versioned store the services read from.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Orchestration and before Centralized Authentication.

Requires

• Config Store
• Access Control

Reinforces

• Governance
• Consistency

Enables

• Unified Config Management

Conflicts with

• Scattered Configuration

In tension with

• Central Dependency Risk

Tensions

• Centralized Configuration / Central Dependency Risk

Violated by

• Scattered Configuration

Refactored by

• Schema Validation

Severity

• contextual

Category

• Control / Coordination / Centralization

Enforced by

• runtime/entrypoints/config.entrypoint.ts

Refactors

• Hardcoded Configuration

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance
• Transactions / State / Concurrency
• Control / Coordination / Centralization
• Severity levels
• The resolutions