Minimizing the content of config files and remote/web administration

[christiansmith]

It may be advantageous to treat providers and OIDC settings as resources stored in the database and updatable via HTTP API. This could eliminate the need to restart the service in order to configure authentication and would also make it possible to configure remotely via curl or a web UI. Some people (although idfk who they are) apparently like to click things ;-)

Also see: anvilresearch/connect-cli#1

[adalinesimonian]

Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes.

If we implement this, I think we should deprecate provider configuration in the config file, and keep that functionality available for long enough such that people can migrate.

[adalinesimonian]

Having given it more thought, I think that if we were to go ahead with this, that we should provide a mechanism for exporting and importing the provider (and any other related) configuration data as JSON.