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Employee Configuration Reference

Summary

This page identifies safe configuration categories without disclosing key names, values, connection material, or internal endpoints.

Audience

  • DevOps engineers, developers, support engineers, and security reviewers

Reference Content

CategoryPurposeRequired/optional evidenceSafe impactOwner
DatabaseEF Core persistence and startup migrationRequired for normal service operationUnavailable/invalid configuration can prevent startup or data accessEmployee/database owners
AuthenticationAccepted token trustOperationally required for protected business callsIncorrect trust configuration rejects callersIdentity/security owners
Tenant contextTenant-scoped data and validationRequired for Employee commandsMissing context rejects or empties operationsEmployee/identity owners
MessagingShared event-bus adapterOptional for HTTP persistence; required for successful publicationUnavailable messaging leaves publication unsuccessfulMessaging owner
OutboxTransactional event stagingNo separate category beyond Employee persistence is confirmedStaged messages can remain pending/failedEmployee owner
ObservabilityTracing exporters and log behaviorExport destinations are optionalChanges where traces/logs are emittedDevOps/observability owner
Service identityLabels logs/traces and service informationA fallback exists; explicit production ownership requires confirmationIncorrect identity reduces signal clarityService owner
Migration behaviorAutomatic or separately governed migrationOptional control; one migration path is required operationallyA suppressed startup migration requires another approved stepDatabase/DevOps owners
Gateway routingMonolith or extracted compatibility destinationRequired for portal access; direct service testing can be independentChanges runtime ownership and identifier expectationsGateway/service owners

Restart requirements are not uniformly encoded in source and therefore Require confirmation for each deployment platform.

Public-safety boundary

Secret-bearing names/values, connection values, broker topology, internal addresses, and routing toggle names are intentionally omitted.

Source References

  • microservices/src/employee-service/Program.cs
  • microservices/src/employee-service/appsettings.json
  • microservices/src/shared-kernel/Extensions/ObservabilityExtensions.cs
  • microservices/src/shared-kernel/Extensions/MessagingExtensions.cs
  • microservices/src/gateway-api/Program.cs

See Also

Keywords

  • configuration categories
  • safe configuration
  • configuration ownership

Revision Information

  • Status: Draft
  • Last reviewed: 2026-07-15
  • Review cycle: Quarterly