Configuration

Spinta can be configured using multiple configuration sources. By default these sources are used in precedence order:

• Command line arguments.

• Environment variables.

• .env file.

• Configuration sources provided by extensions via config option.

• Default Spinta configuration spinta.config:CONFIG.

There is an additional configuration source config_path. config_path is a directory where additional configuration files are looked for.

More on configuration

• Authentication
• Configuring backends
• Configuring manifests

Inspecting configuration

You can inspect current configuration by using following command:

spinta config

This command will list current configuration values and will also tell source of origin of each configuration value.

You can filter listed configuration options by providing list of prefixes, for example:

spinta config backends manifests

Since Spinta is usually configured using environment variables, you can show configuration options names as environment variables by adding -f env argument:

spinta config -f env backends manifests

Configuring spinta

Spinta configuration values are organized in a hierarchy of options. Usually hierarchy levels are separated by a . or by a __. __ is used for environment variables, since . is not allowed in environment variables names.

Configuration options containing suboptions are interpreted as list of suboption names. For example if we have following configuration:

backends.pg.type=postgresql
backends.mongo.type=mongo
backends.fs.type=fs

backends value is a list containing pg and fs, called keys. If you want to remove existing keys, you can set backends, like this:

backends=pg,fs

This will remove all configuration options except backends.pg and backends.fs. In this case, backends.mongo will be removed.

Command line

All spinta commands have -o command line argument. With -o you can set configuration values, for example:

> spinta -o backends.foo.type=mongo config backends
Origin   Name               Value
-------  -----------------  -----
cliargs  backends.foo.type  mongo

-o must be use immediately after spinta command and before any subcommands.

You can use -o multiple times, to set multiple configuration options.

Environment variables

All environment variables must use SPINTA_ prefix and hierarchy levels must be separated with __. For example:

> SPINTA_BACKENDS__FOO__TYPE=mongo spinta config backends
Origin   Name               Value
-------  -----------------  -----
cliargs  backends.foo.type  mongo

.env file

Spinta tries to read .env file from current directory if such file exists. .env file simply contains list environemnt variables.

Empty lines and lines starting with # are ignored.

Additional configuration sources

After reading configuration values from command line arguments, environment variables and .env file, Spinta reads additional configuration sources set via config option.

config option can contain list of comma separated values. Each value can be a path to .yml file or it can be a python dotted path like myapp.config:CONFIG, pointing to a dict.

For example we can create an additional configuration file:

> cat > /tmp/custom.yml <<EOF
backends:
  foo:
    type: mongo
EOF

And use it to configure Spinta:

> spinta -o config=/tmp/custom.yml config backends
Origin           Name               Value
---------------  -----------------  -----
/tmp/custom.yml  backends.foo.type  mongo

This way of configuring Spinta is meant for extensions to provide custom default values, overriding defaults coming from spinta.config:CONFIG.

Configuration directory

In addition to main configuration, there are other configuration files, for example client credentials, token authorization keys, client access and other files. All this addition files are stored in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/spinta directory, usually it is ~/.config/spinta directory.

Path to this directory can be changed via config_path configuration option.