Rust Configuration Management

Open-source Rust projects categorized as Configuration Management

Top 7 Rust Configuration Management Projects

Configuration Management
  1. config-rs

    ⚙️ Layered configuration system for Rust applications (with strong support for 12-factor applications).

    Project mention: A Practical Guide to Layered Configuration for Modern JavaScript Applications | dev.to | 2025-06-30

    It was heavily inspired by the official rust library for dealing with this problem: config-rs.

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  3. habitat

    Modern applications with built-in automation

  4. kcl

    KCL Programming Language (CNCF Sandbox Project). https://kcl-lang.io

  5. comtrya

    Configuration Management for Localhost / dotfiles

    Project mention: A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager written in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-01
  6. twelf

    Twelf is a configuration solution for Rust including 12-Factor support. It is designed with layers in order to configure different sources and formats to build your configuration. The main goal is to be very simple using a proc macro.

    Project mention: Rust library for building no-boilerplate CLI apps | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-03

    Looks nice! I like the approach.

    My holy grail will still be landing on a good multi-layer configuration setup for Rust CLIs. Ideally CLI flags merged over top of environment variables merged over top of configuration files.

    Twelf [0] was close in unifying things, but I had some friction. Lately I've been using Schematic [1] to handle the environment + config layers, and then just a manual implementation of Clap arguments layered on top.

    [0] https://github.com/bnjjj/twelf.

  7. tiron

    Reasonable Automation Engine

  8. Nazm

    Declarative configuration management for Windows

  9. InfluxDB

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Configuration Management projects in Rust? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 config-rs 2,982
2 habitat 2,660
3 kcl 2,135
4 comtrya 571
5 twelf 121
6 tiron 84
7 Nazm 15

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