ocbesbn-config

ocbesbn-config

This module provides easy access to instances of the consul service registry. It helps with accessing key-value stored configuration data, local data encryption and service endpoint discovery with health checking. It provides automatic key prefixing for +key* storage isolation and caching for keys and endpoints. For further details, please have a look at the wiki.

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Minimum setup

First got to your local code directory and run:

npm install ocbesbn-config

To go with the minimum setup, you need to have a consul instance up and running. Now go to your code file and put in the minimum setup code.

const config = require('ocbesbn-config');

// You might want to pass a configuration object to the init method. A list of parameters and their default values
// can be found at the .DefaultConfig module property.
config.init({}).then(() => config.setProperty('my-key', 'my-value'))
	.then(() => config.getProperty('my-key')).then(console.log).catch(console.log);

If everything worked as expected, you will get a bluebird promise as result.

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Requesting multiple keys

In addition to single-key-requests, the config module provides **two different methods for multi-key-requests.

1. Key-prefixing (like paths).
2. List of keys.

Keys by prefix

Prefixing allows you to recursively fetch consul keys and their corresponding values by simply passing a prefix and the recursive parameter to the getProperty() method of the config module. After all keys have been retrieved successfully, the resulting promise contains an object in which the (full) consul keys represent the actual keys and their values represent the actual values inside consul.

config.init({}).then(() => config.setProperty("path/to/key1", "value1"))
	.then(() => config.setProperty("path/to/key2", "value2"))
	.then(() => config.setProperty("path/to/key3", "value3"))
	.then(() => config.getProperty("path/", true))
	.then(console.log)
	.catch(console.log);

/* Should output:
{ 'path/to/key1': 'value1',
  'path/to/key2': 'value2',
  'path/to/key3': 'value3' }
*/

Keys by list

The config module allows passing an array of keys or prefixes (but not mixed!) to the getProperty() method. After all keys have been retrieved successfully, the resulting promise contains an array of consul values each at the corresponding position of their input keys.

config.init({}).then(() => config.setProperty("key1", "value1"))
	.then(() => config.setProperty("key2", "value2"))
	.then(() => config.setProperty("key3", "value3"))
	.then(() => config.getProperty([ "key1", "key2", "key3" ]))
	.then(console.log)
	.catch(console.log);

/* Should output:
[ 'value1', 'value2', 'value3' ]
*/

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Data encryption

By using the getPassword() and setPassword() methods, the config module is capable of encrypting and decrypting data retrieved and or stored with this methods. It also exposes the encryptData() and decryptData() methods, which can be used to encrypt small amounts of local data.

The file storage of the encryption key can be configured using the serviceSecretPath property of available through the config object .DefaultConfig. This feature is mainly designed to use docker secrets but can of course be adjusted to any other key path.

Notice: If the key path was not found at the configured location, a warning is emitted to the console and the key 'default' is used.

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Default configuration

The default configuration object provides hints about what the module's standard behavior is like. It is mostly recommended to leave most settings as they are and treat them more as general conventions to a common structure in order to maintain a common setup across different services. For further details, please have a look at the wiki.

{
	host: 'consul',
	port: 8500,
	retryCount : 5,
	retryTimeout : 1000,
	serviceSecretPath : `/run/secrets/${config.serviceName}-consul-key`
}