LukeWhat is Cottonmouth?
It is a zero-config configuration library for Node.js, with out-of-the-box support for defaults, configuration files (YAML, TOML, JSON(5), and INI), and environment variables.
Cottonmouth is a tool in the Continuous Deployment category of a tech stack.
Key Features
JSON, JSON5, INI, YAML, and TOML are all supported out-of-the-box as file formats!Automatically handle environment variables as a source of configuration with no effort!works out-of-the-box using sensible defaults with no configuration required!Fully typed and self-documenting, with support for generics!Bring your own file format parsers if we don't support your configuration files natively!
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Cottonmouth Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Cottonmouth?
Ansible
Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates. Ansible’s goals are foremost those of simplicity and maximum ease of use.
Terraform
With Terraform, you describe your complete infrastructure as code, even as it spans multiple service providers. Your servers may come from AWS, your DNS may come from CloudFlare, and your database may come from Heroku. Terraform will build all these resources across all these providers in parallel.
Dotenv
It is a zero-dependency module that loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env. Storing configuration in the environment separate from code is based on The Twelve-Factor App methodology.
