This projects wants to supports other projects with profiles, to use the same code on different environsments just be setting a PROFILE environment varibale. Inspired by java spring profiles. This makes it easier to set up the service without define several environment variables on every system.

cd $GOPATH/src/myapp/
go build
./myapp
  time="2017-09-25T13:13:17+02:00" level=info msg="ProfileService: env variable PROFILE not set - application started with default profile" 


export PROFILE=dev
./myapp
  time="2017-09-25T13:13:17+02:00" level=info msg="ProfileService: started with profile" profile=dev 

The application profile files needs to be named like application-<PROFILE-NAME>.yml. The default profile file application.yml will be used if the environment variable is not set.

profile:
    name: development
application:
	port: 8081
    context: /context
    name: default-application

Checkout this project with

go get github.com/lvornholt/go-profiles

import (
    ...
	profile "github.com/lvornholt/go-profiles"
}

var name string

func init() {

	configName := profile.GetConfigValue("application.name")
	if len(configName) > 0 {
		name = configName
	}
}

func main() {
    ...