Hello folks... I have a more complicated applicati...

# ktor

[Luiz Aguiar]

Hello folks... I have a more complicated application configuration question.
Imagine a carmaker application, that runs on multiple environments for each carmaker.
• tesla - development, staging, production
• honda - development, testing, staging, production
• ford - development, qa, staging, production
I think you got the idea... every "profile" can have multiple envs, each one needs its own configuration values.
questions:
is it possible to setup a Ktor application to fit these needs?
is using -config via command line the best approach?

java -jar sample-app.jar -config=anotherfile.conf

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

is it possible to setup a Ktor application to fit these needs?

Yes.

is using -config via command line the best approach?

That’s difficult to answer. You can try solving your problem with configuration, environment variables or both to decide what’s better.

[Luiz Aguiar]

@Aleksei Tirman [JB] thanks for replying.
from the framework perspective (features set), what options we might have to achieve this setup?
I asked about the -config because I didn't find another option to have multiple "profiles" that can be loaded on specific environments, but I'm don't know if there is any other option.

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

The simplest solution I can think of is to use some naming convention for configs, e.g. <profile>_<env>.conf , if you need to know what are the current profile and environment.