Externalize Configuration

Kind: technique

Layer: Execution Core

Record: lexicon:externalize-configuration

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for moving values that vary by environment out of code into configuration read at startup.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Identity Provider Availability and before Configuration Schema.

Category

• Control / Coordination / Centralization

Refactors

• Hardcoded Configuration
• Magic Value
• Environment Parity
• Containerization
• Configuration Externalization
• Declarative Configuration
• Resource Utilization

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment
• Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems
• Scalability / Performance / Optimization