Configuration

Overview

By default, Cronus and its sub-components have good default settings. However, not everything can be auto-configured, such as connection strings to databases or endpoints to various services.

Cronus

Name	Type	Required	Default Value
Cronus:BoundedContext	string	yes
Cronus:Tenants	string[]	yes
Cronus:ApplicationServicesEnabled	bool	no	true
Cronus:ProjectionsEnabled	bool	no	true
Cronus:PortsEnabled	bool	no	true
Cronus:SagasEnabled	bool	no	true
Cronus:GatewaysEnabled	bool	no	true

Cronus:BoundedContext

Cronus uses this setting to personalize your application. This setting is used for naming the following components:

• RabbiMQ exchange and queue names

• Cassandra EventStore names

• Cassandra Projection store names

Allowed Characters: Cronus:BoundedContext must be an alphanumeric character or underscore only: ^\b([\w\d_]+$)'

Cronus:Tenants

List of tenants allowed to use the system. Cronus is designed with multitenancy in mind from the beginning and requires at least one tenant to be configured in order to work properly. The multitenancy aspects are applied to many components and to give you a feel about this here is an incomplete list of different parts of the system using this setting:

• Message - every message which is sent through Cronus is bound to a specific tenant

• RabbitMQ exchanges and queues are tenant-aware

• Event Store - every tenant has a separate storage

• Projection Store - every tenant has a separate storage

Each value you provide in the array is converted and used further to lower.

Allowed Characters: Cronus:Tenants must be an alphanumeric character or underscore only: ^\b([\w\d_]+$)'

Example value: ["tenant1","tenant2","tenant3"]

Once set you could use TenantsOptions object via Dependency Injection for other purposes.

Cronus:ApplicationServicesEnabled

Specifies whether to start a consumer for the Application Services

Cronus:ProjectionsEnabled

Specifies whether to start a consumer for the Projections

Cronus:PortsEnabled

Specifies whether to start a consumer for the Ports

Cronus:SagasEnabled

Specifies whether to start a consumer for the Sagas

Cronus:GatewaysEnabled

Specifies whether to start a consumer for the Gateways

Cronus.Api

Name	Type	Required	Default Value
Cronus:Api:Kestrel	configurationSection	no
Cronus:Api:JwtAuthentication	configurationSection	no

Hosting

The API is hosted with Kestrel.

By default, the API is hosted on port 7477.

A configuration could be provided by KestrelOptions. You can supply them directly in the DI or through a configuration file.

Cronus:Api:Kestrel

{
    "Cronus": {
        "Api": {
            "Kestrel": {
                "Endpoints": {
                    "Https": {
                        "Url": "https://*:7477",
                        "Certificate": {
                            "Subject": "*.example.com",
                            "Store": "My",
                            "Location": "CurrentUser",
                            "AllowInvalid": "true"
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Authentication

The API could be protected using a JWT bearer authentication.

The configuration is provided by JwtBearerOptions. You can supply them directly in the DI or through a configuration file.

Cronus:Api:JwtAuthentication

{
    "Cronus": {
        "Api": {
            "JwtAuthentication": {
                "Authority": "https://example.com",
                "Audience": "https://example.com/resources"
            }
        }
    }
}

Remarks: https://stackoverflow.com/a/58736850/224667

Cronus.Persistence.Cassandra

Name	Type	Required	Default Value
Cronus:Persistence:Cassandra:ConnectionString	string	yes
Cronus:Persistence:Cassandra:ReplicationStrategy	string	no	simple
Cronus:Persistence:Cassandra:ReplicationFactor	int	no	1
Cronus:Persistence:Cassandra:Datacenters	string[]	no

Cronus:Persistence:Cassandra:ConnectionString

The connection to the Cassandra database server

Cronus:Persistence:Cassandra:ReplicationStrategy

Configures Cassandra replication strategy. This setting has effect only in the first run when creating the database.

Valid values:

• simple

• network_topology - when using this setting you need to specify Cronus:Persistence:Cassandra:ReplicationFactor and Cronus:Persistence:Cassandra:Datacenters as well

Cronus.Projections.Cassandra

Name	Type	Required	Default Value
Cronus:Projections:Cassandra:ConnectionString	string	yes
Cronus:Pojections:Cassandra:ReplicationStrategy	string	no	simple
Cronus:Pojections:Cassandra:ReplicationFactor	int	no	1
Cronus:Pojections:Cassandra:Datacenters	string[]	no
Cronus:Pojections:Cassandra:TableRetention:DeleteOldProjectionTables	boolean	no	true
Cronus:Projections:Cassandra:TableRetention:NumberOfOldProjectionTablesToRetain	uint	no	2

Cronus:Projections:Cassandra:ConnectionString

The connection to the Cassandra database server

Cronus:Projections:Cassandra:ReplicationStrategy

Configures Cassandra replication strategy. This setting has effect only in the first run when creating the database.

Valid values:

• simple

• network_topology - when using this setting you need to specify Cronus:Projections:Cassandra:ReplicationFactor and Cronus:Projections:Cassandra:Datacenters as well

Cronus:Projections:Cassandra:ReplicationFactor

Cronus:Projections:Cassandra:Datacenters

Cronus:Projections:Cassandra:TableRetention:DeleteOldProjectionTables

Enables deletion of old projection tables

Cronus:Projections:Cassandra:TableRetention:NumberOfOldProjectionTablesToRetain

Configures Cassandra number of old projection tables -> default: live table and 2 old tables

Cronus.Transport.RabbitMq

Cronus:Transport:RabbiMQ:ConsumerWorkersCount >> integer | Required: Yes | Default: 5

Configures the number of threads which will be dedicated to consuming messages from RabbitMQ for every consumer.

Cronus:Transport:RabbiMQ:Server >> string | Required: Yes | Default: 127.0.0.1

DNS or IP to the RabbitMQ server

Cronus:Transport:RabbiMQ:Port >> integer | Required: Yes | Default: 5672

The port number on which the RabbitMQ server is running

Cronus:Transport:RabbiMQ:VHost >> string | Required: Yes | Default: /

The name of the virtual host. It is a good practice to not use the default / vhost. For more details see the official docs. Cronus is not using this for managing multitenancy.

Cronus:Transport:RabbiMQ:Username >> string | Required: Yes | Default: guest

The RabbitMQ username

Cronus:Transport:RabbiMQ:Password >> string | Required: Yes | Default: guest

The RabbitMQ password

Cronus:Transport:RabbiMQ:AdminPort >> integer | Required: Yes | Default: 5672

RabbitMQ admin port used to create, delete rabbitmq resources

Cronus.AtomicAction.Redis

An implementation of Cronus.AtomicAction using distributed locks with Redis

(Source: https://redis.io/topics/distlock)

Cronus:AtomicAction:Redis:ConnectionString >> string | Required: Yes

Configures the connection string where Redis is located

Cronus:AtomicAction:Redis:LockTtl >> TimeSpan | Required: No | Default: 00:00:01.000

Cronus:AtomicAction:Redis:ShorTtl >> TimeSpan | Required: No | Default: 00:00:01.000

Cronus:AtomicAction:Redis:LongTtl >> TimeSpan | Required: No | Default: 00:00:05.000

Cronus:AtomicAction:Redis:LockRetryCount >> int | Required: No | Default: 3

Cronus:AtomicAction:Redis:LockRetryDelay >> TimeSpan | Required: No | Default: 00:00:00.100

Cronus:AtomicAction:Redis:ClockDriveFactor >> double | Required: No | Default: 0.01