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Support plugin configuration in the main yaml config

At the moment plugins can be configured via command line, environment variables, or json configuration file. But they cannot be configured in the main server yaml config. I think this is just because our yaml config parser only parses the top leve...
Timothy Coleman 17 days ago in EventStoreDB / Configuration 1

Remove the PLUGINS__ configuration section

The users don't need to know or care whether what they are configuration is a plugin or not. e.g. Instead of EVENTSTORE__PLUGINS__AUTOSCAVENGE__ENABLED we could have EVENTSTORE__AUTOSCAVENGE__ENABLED The tradeoff (and the reason why it is like thi...
Timothy Coleman 17 days ago in EventStoreDB / Configuration 0

Support certificates with EC (elliptic curve) keys

ESDB currently supports only RSA keys in certificates when specifying --certificate-private-key-file. The advantage of using EC keys would be that the key is much smaller for the same security level (EC takes 256 bit vs RSA 2048 bit for same secur...
Alexey Zimarev 6 months ago in EventStoreDB / Configuration / Operations / Security 1

Store some configuration in the database

ESDB is primarily configured using the config file, which is located on each cluster node. Some features (projections, connectors) are configured in the database itself. It can be confusing to understand where things are configured and why some co...
Alexey Zimarev 8 months ago in EventStoreDB / Configuration / Operations 0 Planned

Managing database configuration via API

Changing the database configuration currently requires access to the machine where the cluster node is running. In many cases, it creates too much burden because there are more people who have access to the database compared with the number of peo...
Alexey Zimarev 8 months ago in EventStoreDB / Configuration 0