Konfig by lalamove

Composable, observable and performant config handling for Go for the distributed processing era

configurationconfigstate-managementreloadingcomposablepolyglotgolanggolang-packagekubernetesvaultetcd
Verdict 70/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty Last release 6.0 years ago

Self-host Konfig on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
70 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
2 /5
Docker + read README
GitHub stars
646
53 forks

About Konfig

From the project's README at github.com/lalamove/konfig. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

[](https://travis-ci.org/lalamove/konfig) [](https://codecov.io/gh/lalamove/konfig) [](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/lalamove/konfig) [](https://godoc.org/github.com/lalamove/konfig) Composable, observable and performant config handling for Go. Written for larger distributed systems where you may have plenty of configuration sources - it allows you to compose configurations from multiple sources with reload hooks making it simple to build apps that live in a highly dynamic environment. What's up with the name? The name is Swedish for "config". We have a lot of nationalities here at Lalamove and to celebrate cultural diversity most of our open source packages will carry a name derived from a non-English language that is perhaps spoken by at least one of our employees(?). Why another config package? Most config packages for Golang are not very extensible and rarely expose interfaces. This makes it complex to build apps which can reload their state dynamically and difficult to mock. Fewer still come with sources such as Vault, Etcd and multiple encoding formats. In short, we didn't find a package that satisfied all of our requirements when we st

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
80
maturity
100
community
90
security
70
sustainability
53
adoption
24

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

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GitHub stars 646 github.com/lalamove/konfig
GitHub forks 53 github.com/lalamove/konfig

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age7.3 yearssince Jan 2019
Last commit5.5 years agoOct 28, 2020
Releases shipped22last: 6.0 years ago

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

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