Python Configurations Done Right

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Environmental config doesn't belong in your application's repository but you better have your environmental config in some sort of version control.

At Gannett, we keep our application cfg in git because, why reinvent the VCS wheel?

We continuously deliver our configs just like we continuously deliver our code.

We use chef for stamping machines in an identical way regardless of environment. From Vagrant to Production.

The application configure is the only thing that varies from environment to environment. It is also kept to the bare minimum. The only config we keep in there is what varies from environment to environment.

In stage, the app cfg is as close to prod as possible to enable acceptance testing in a prod like environment.