Steeltoe

Cloud Foundry configuration with SteelToe

I’ve been playing around with the SteelToe framework for .net apps on Cloud Foundry a bit and it’s been nice overall (I’ll probably write a few more posts about it at some point 😊). While playing around with it the configuration part of it I wasn’t really liking the way settings can be read from the main configuration.

Let’s start with a really short primer on how the configuration system works. Cloud Foundry apps can be bound to services, doing so adds a reference to the bound service in the environment variables of the app that was bound. You can take a look at what is provided to an applications environment by running