soa-configs

soa-configs are the shared configuration storage that PaaSTA uses to hold the description and configuration of what services exist and how they should be deployed and monitored.

This directory needs to be deployed globally in the same location to every server that runs any PaaSTA component.

PaaSTA reads particular config files for each service in the soa-configs directory. There is one folder per service. Here is an example tree:

soa-configs
├── web
│   ├── deploy.yaml
│   ├── kubernetes-dev.yaml
│   ├── kubernetes-prod.yaml
│   ├── monitoring.yaml
│   ├── service.yaml
│   └── smartstack.yaml
├── api
│   ├── adhoc-prod.yaml
│   ├── deploy.yaml
│   ├── marathon-dev.yaml
│   ├── marathon-prod.yaml
│   ├── monitoring.yaml
│   ├── service.yaml
│   ├── smartstack.yaml
│   └── tron-prod.yaml
...

See the paasta-specific soa-configs documentation for more information about the structure and contents of some example files in soa-configs that PaaSTA uses.

For more information about why we chose this method of config distribution, watch this talk on Yelp’s soa-configs and how it is used.

For reading soa-configs, PaaSTA uses service_configuration_lib.