Startup should fail (or at minimum log) on necessary configuration

[richard-keebler]

I need the following improvement

The aidbox application starts up fine, even when missing necessary configuration. A common pattern in applications that have required or necessary configuration is to either inform via logs of a missing configuration or fail to start.

The expected benefit

Knowing what to configure.

[ddegr]

Did you see the list of required ENVs here and the optional ones here.

Hope it helped

[richard-keebler]

Sure, but as I said above, documenting is not enough. The application needs to handle these. For example, if it was missing the admin password, I would expect either complete failure to startup and a log message saying that it was missing, or a log message telling me that the ui login is now disabled (and the inability to hit /auth/login).