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EnvX

Environment configuration management platform for secrets, API keys, version history, audit logs, and configuration drift detection.

  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • React
  • Docker

Schematic illustration.

Overview

EnvX is a personal project: a platform for managing environment configuration across projects and environments, including secrets and API keys, with version history, audit logs, and drift detection.

The Problem

Environment variables and secrets are often shared through ad-hoc files and messages. That makes it hard to know what changed, who changed it, and whether environments have drifted apart.

Architecture

  1. Interface

    • React dashboard

  2. Backend

    • Python API

  3. Storage (PostgreSQL)

    • Configuration & secrets
    • Version history
    • Audit log

  4. Insights

    • Drift detection across environments
Packaged and run with Docker.

How It Works

  1. 1

    Store

    Configuration and secrets are organised by project and environment.

  2. 2

    Version

    Every change creates a new version, so history can be compared.

  3. 3

    Audit

    Actions are recorded in an audit log for traceability.

  4. 4

    Detect drift

    Environments are compared to surface configuration drift.

My Contribution

  • Designed and built the project end to end.
  • Developed the Python backend and PostgreSQL data model.
  • Built the React dashboard.
  • Containerised the application with Docker.

Engineering Challenges

  • Modelling versioned configuration so that history and comparisons stay simple to query.
  • Treating secrets carefully throughout storage, display, and audit trails.

Lessons Learned

  • Auditability and versioning are core features of configuration tooling, not add-ons.