cit

Tool to manage environment based configurations.

Setup and Build

Install dotnet core, run dotnet restore && dotnet build.

Usage

Commands available

- init

Initiates cit default environment and metadata.

- init env-name

Initiates env-name. Initiates cit default environment, if not found.

- add env-name key value

Adds the supplied key & value entry to given env-name. To add default value that applies to all environments, use add default <key> <value>.

- add env-name key value -p password -s salt

Adds the supplied key & value entry to given env-name securely. The value is encrypted using the provided password and salt. To add default secure value that applies to all environments, use add default <key> <value> -p password -s salt. Please use the same password and salt for all secure keys.

- remove env-name key

Removes the key entry from the given env-name.

- clean env-name

Removes the supplied env-name and its metadata.

- copy existing-env-name new-env-name

Creates new-env-name environment with the same key & value entries as of existing-env-name.

- apply env-name-1 env-name-2 ... env-name-n -f file-name-1 file-name-2 ... file-name-3

Apply does the following,

• Merges the key-values from the supplied list of environments. Value available in last specified environment takes precedence.
• Replaces the occurences of #key with its corresponding value for the set of files specified.

Optionally pass -p password -s salt if secure keys needs to decrypted while applying.

- help

Shows the usage instructions for this tool.

Features in the backlog

• Plugin support to define data storage mechanism.
• Help command.
• Tests.
• Platform specific Executables.
• Make flags and named parameters order independent. e.g add -p password -s salt key value Nice to Have!.