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Top 7 Rust Configuration Management Projects
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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 | 2025-06-30It was heavily inspired by the official rust library for dealing with this problem: config-rs.
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Project mention: A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager written in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-01
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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 | 2024-12-03Looks 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.
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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
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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 | 2,964 |
| 2 | habitat | 2,655 |
| 3 | kcl | 2,093 |
| 4 | comtrya | 569 |
| 5 | twelf | 119 |
| 6 | tiron | 84 |
| 7 | Nazm | 14 |
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