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I'm still a big fan of minimal configuration through sane defaults, but not advocating "zero configuration" in that sense that you have no power to change those defaults.

One area I think we've done really well with this in the past year is the "-dev" flag on Vault, Consul, Nomad. It is a zero-configuration way to get a fully functional dev server up and running in one command though you can still specify a config if you wanted. For non-dev, I just don't want to set dozens of options just to get going, so we'll continue to strive for defaults that work where we can.

All that being said, they are defaults, so you can always change them.




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