"Environment variables ... are today's best practice for application setup"
That's a statement that could really do with some backing up.
The people who wrote the 12 factor app guide worked for Heroku. Using env variables were pretty much the only possibly solution allowed for Heroku apps, so that guide isn't exactly neutral when it comes to recommendations.
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"Environment variables ... are today's best practice for application setup"
That's a statement that could really do with some backing up.
The people who wrote the 12 factor app guide worked for Heroku. Using env variables were pretty much the only possibly solution allowed for Heroku apps, so that guide isn't exactly neutral when it comes to recommendations.