🎯 The Problem

You love YAML for configuration—it's clean, readable, and organized. But what about sensitive data like API keys, database passwords, and tokens? Hardcoding them is a security nightmare. 😱

✨ The Solution

envYaml bridges the gap between clean YAML configuration and secure environment variable management. Reference environment variables directly in your YAML files, and envYaml handles the rest!

# config.yml - Clean and secure! 🔒
database:
  host: localhost
  port: 5432
  password: ${DB_PASSWORD}  # Loaded from environment

api:
  key: ${API_KEY}           # Never committed to git
  secret: ${API_SECRET}     # Always secure

🚀 Installation

go get github.com/yuseferi/envyaml@latest

Requirements: Go 1.25+

⚡ Quick Start

1. Create your YAML configuration:

# config.yml
host: localhost
port: 3606
password: ${DB_PASSWORD}

2. Define your config struct:

type Config struct {
    Host     string `yaml:"host" env:"HOST"`
    Port     int    `yaml:"port" env:"PORT"`
    Password string `yaml:"password" env:"DB_PASSWORD,required"`
}

3. Load and use:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "log"
    
    "github.com/yuseferi/envyaml"
)

func main() {
    var cfg Config
    
    if err := envyaml.LoadConfig("config.yml", &cfg); err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    
    fmt.Printf("Connected to %s:%d\n", cfg.Host, cfg.Port)
}

🎨 Features

Feature	Description
🔄 Seamless Integration	Combine YAML files with environment variables effortlessly
✅ Required Variables	Mark critical env vars as required with automatic validation
🏷️ Struct Tags	Use familiar yaml and env struct tags
🛡️ Type Safety	Full Go type safety with automatic type conversion
📦 Zero Config	Works out of the box with sensible defaults
🪶 Lightweight	Minimal dependencies, maximum performance

📚 Examples

Required Environment Variables

Mark sensitive variables as required to fail fast if they're missing:

type Config struct {
    Host     string `yaml:"host" env:"HOST"`
    Port     int    `yaml:"port" env:"PORT"`
    Password string `yaml:"password" env:"DB_PASSWORD,required"` // 👈 Required!
}

var cfg Config
err := envyaml.LoadConfig("config.yml", &cfg)
if err != nil {
    // Error: failed to parse environment variables: env: required environment variable "DB_PASSWORD" is not set
    log.Fatal(err)
}

Complete Working Example

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "os"
    
    "github.com/yuseferi/envyaml"
)

type DatabaseConfig struct {
    Host     string `yaml:"host" env:"DB_HOST"`
    Port     int    `yaml:"port" env:"DB_PORT"`
    Username string `yaml:"username" env:"DB_USER"`
    Password string `yaml:"password" env:"DB_PASSWORD,required"`
    Database string `yaml:"database" env:"DB_NAME"`
}

type Config struct {
    Database DatabaseConfig `yaml:"database"`
    Debug    bool           `yaml:"debug" env:"DEBUG"`
}

func main() {
    // Set environment variables (in production, these come from your environment)
    os.Setenv("DB_PASSWORD", "super_secret_password")
    
    var cfg Config
    if err := envyaml.LoadConfig("config.yml", &cfg); err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("Failed to load config: %v", err)
    }
    
    fmt.Printf("Database: %s@%s:%d/%s\n", 
        cfg.Database.Username,
        cfg.Database.Host, 
        cfg.Database.Port,
        cfg.Database.Database,
    )
}

With this config.yml:

database:
  host: localhost
  port: 5432
  username: admin
  password: ${DB_PASSWORD}
  database: myapp

debug: false

Output:

Database: admin@localhost:5432/myapp

🏗️ How It Works

┌─────────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐     ┌─────────────────┐
│   YAML File     │     │   Environment   │     │   Go Struct     │
│                 │     │   Variables     │     │                 │
│  host: localhost│     │                 │     │  Host: localhost│
│  port: 3606     │ ──► │  DB_PASSWORD=   │ ──► │  Port: 3606     │
│  password: ${..}│     │  "secret123"    │     │  Password: ...  │
└─────────────────┘     └─────────────────┘     └─────────────────┘
        │                       │                       │
        └───────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘
                            envYaml

1. Read - Parse your YAML configuration file
2. Merge - Overlay environment variables using struct tags
3. Validate - Ensure required variables are present
4. Return - Provide a fully populated, type-safe config struct

🛠️ Development

This project uses Task for managing development tasks.

# Build the project
task build

# Run tests
task test

# Run tests with coverage
task test-coverage

# Clean generated files
task clean

# Run all tasks
task all

🤝 Contributing

We love contributions! ❤️

1. 🍴 Fork the repository
2. 🌿 Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. 💾 Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. 📤 Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. 🎉 Open a Pull Request

Please feel free to:

• 🐛 Report bugs
• 💡 Suggest new features
• 📖 Improve documentation
• ⭐ Star the project if you find it useful!

📄 License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.

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