Golang Microservices: Configuration, Environment Variables and Vault

Let me share with you another tip when building microservices in Go! Secure configuration using Hashicorp’s Vault via environment variables, command line parameters and a bundled file

* Previous episode: “Building Microservices in Go/Golang: Repository Pattern, Services and Dependency Injection”: https://youtu.be/Z89UU4vSayY
* Example code: https://github.com/MarioCarrion/todo-api-microservice-example/tree/b0867ace29e7e50a3586a42094e6d51d375311d6

* Article: Environment Variables: https://mariocarrion.com/2018/01/31/go-environment-variables.html
* Article: Secure Configuration with Environment Variables and AWS SSM: https://mariocarrion.com/2019/11/20/golang-aws-ssm-env-vars-package.html

* Playlist “Building Microservices in Go/Golang”: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7yAAGMOat_Fn8sAXIk0WyBfK_sT1pohu
* Playlist “Go/Golang Tools and Packages”: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7yAAGMOat_HEEOvH99agDs_5g51A0Ls3

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00:00 – Start
00:15 – Agenda
00:29 – Ways to configure services
01:28 – Why environment variables?
03:15 – Packages to use for configuration
05:59 – Demo
14:10 – Parting words

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