api-keys
06 Mar 2015api-keys is my centralized, machine readable JSON format for storing my API keys in. Each micro service that I deploy, has one Github repo that is its central definition, and in the private, master repo, I am storing my api-keys.json file.
I rely upon the Github API, and oAuth to read, and write to this config file, allowing each micro service I deploy to access, and cache the API configuration locally, with supporting API endpoints to update when needed.
api-keys will always be located at a private location, it is up to each micro service to have the path available in APIs.son, or just keep as a known, common location within the master branch of the repo—both configurations will use Github security to secure.
Since my micro services all live within a single Github organization, I am able to have a central key management interface, to globally manage the API keys and tokens I use across my micro-services, and help keep my house in order.
api-keys is different than api-config, because it will have a different management process, and evolve in alignment with multiple API authentication schemas my APIs support, while api-config.json will probably remain pretty static.