[stork-users] Stork Agent: Error messages when not using Prometheus

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 5:01 PM Mik J <mikydevel at yahoo.fr> wrote:
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> Hello Kevin,
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> I understand they are environment variables at the moment.
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> But why not make stork read the parameters from a file. In my case that would make stork portable to Openbsd.
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> Most programs read parameters from a file, they don't tend to use environment variables, particularly when that variable is specific to that program.

As with most open-source software, 'why not' is 'because the
developers have not done that'. They could, of course, if there was
sufficient demand from users/customers, and potentially even code
contributed for it.

It is definitely unusual for a service process to be configured
entirely via environment variables, but it's manageable. Why does this
make it non-portable to OpenBSD?