Ghostable

What is Ghostable?

Ghostable is a secure, collaborative platform designed to manage, validate, and share environment variables in Laravel applications. It simplifies configuration management, making it easier to secure and scale your development workflows. Ghostable handles the complexity of managing sensitive environment data, ensuring consistency and compliance across your projects and organizations.

Benefits

Ghostable offers several key advantages for developers and organizations:

• Secure Sharing & Management: Safely share environment variables across organizations, projects, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Built-In Validation: Automatically enforce validation rules to ensure your environment variables adhere to best practices.
• Comprehensive Versioning: Track every change with full history and instant rollbacks to previous environment configurations.
• Granular Access Control: Precisely manage permissions at the user, organization, and project level.
• Encrypted Storage: All environment variables are stored securely using industry-standard AES-256-GCM encryption.
• CI/CD Integration: Seamlessly integrate Ghostable into your automated testing and deployment workflows.
• Activity Logging: Complete audit trails of environment variable interactions for compliance and security audits.
• Easy Local Inspection: Effortlessly pull environment variables locally for debugging and testing.
• API Driven: Full-featured API to integrate with third-party compliance tools, monitoring platforms, and AI-powered workflows.
• Customizable Validation: Define custom validation rules to meet the unique requirements of your environments.

Use Cases

Ghostable is ideal for Laravel developers and organizations looking to streamline their environment variable management. It is particularly useful for:

• Collaborative Development: Teams can securely share and manage environment variables across multiple projects and organizations.
• Compliance and Security: Ensures that environment variables adhere to best practices and compliance standards.
• Automated Workflows: Integrates seamlessly with CI/CD pipelines, making it easier to automate testing and deployment processes.
• Audit and Monitoring: Provides complete audit trails and activity logging for security and compliance audits.

Requirements

Ghostable requires that your application be compatible with PHP 8.1+ and Laravel 10.0+.

Account Creation

Before integrating Ghostable into your workflow, you’ll first need to create a Ghostable account. If you’re collaborating on projects managed by others, a Ghostable subscription isn’t necessary.

Installing the Ghostable CLI

You will interact with your Ghostable environments using the CLI. The CLI can be installed globally or on a per-project basis using Composer.

Per-project installation:

composer require ghostable-dev/cli --update-with-dependencies

Global installation:

composer global require ghostable-dev/cli --update-with-dependencies

When installing the CLI per-project, you’ll typically execute it via your project’s vendor/bin directory, where Composer installs executables. For example, to view all available Ghostable CLI commands:

php vendor/bin/ghostable list

To save keystrokes, you can add a shell alias that mapsghostabletophp vendor/bin/ghostable:

alias ghostable="php vendor/bin/ghostable"

Exploring Commands

To explore a command’s functionality and its arguments in detail, use the help command with the specific command name:

ghostable help env:push

Logging In

After installing the CLI, authenticate with your Ghostable account using thelogincommand:

ghostable login

You’ll be prompted for:* Email address* Password (hidden)

Organizations

When you create a Ghostable account, your first step is to create an organization. Organizations act as containers for your projects and environments, and you can belong to multiple organizations to collaborate with different groups or clients. All projects and environments in Ghostable belong to an organization. You can join other organizations as a collaborator or create your own to organize work by client or topic.

Listing Organizations

To view all organizations you belong to:

ghostable organization:list

Current Organization & Switching Organizations

When working with the Ghostable CLI, you’ll often need to know which organization is currently active. To check your current organization:

ghostable organization:current

To switch to another organization:

ghostable organization:switch

Collaborators

You can invite others to your organizations using the Ghostable web app: You’ll be able to assign specific roles and permissions, such as read-only or read-write access to environment variables.

Legal and Compliance

Our and outline the terms, conditions, and privacy practices for using Ghostable. By using Ghostable, you agree to these policies.