Customisng OSGI Config for target environment

[Former Community Member]

Hi.

I'm interested in a mechanism of customising the osgi run mode configurations for a given environment before an AEM build is deployed to that environment.  I'm generally against maintaining a config.<env> for each environment as i feel this introduces an unnecessary dependency on the development team who have nothing to do with maintaining the AEM environment.

Has anyone come across any automated ways of achieving this? I am using AEM V.6.0 SP1.

[Jörg_Hoh · Accepted solution]

Hi,

It depends on the number of environiments and the amount of different settings for each. If both numbers are low, I (as operation team) would want the developers taking care of maintaining these settings (exact values are delivered by ops team then). But if one or both numbers are getting larger, I would recommend to choose a different approach: Maintain a maven-module which is dedicated to hold these settings as a content-package. Then give the ops team a short introduction and let them do the maintainenance of these values themselves (you need a good documentation about what data you expect there). This requires that the ops team is familiar with writing some form of XML and is used to use a version control system.

You cannot offload the configuration by 100% to the ops team. And at a point you probably need to have environment-dependent runmodes.

kind regards,
Jörg