This service centralizes the configuration items, but theoratically each service should "push" its items toward the configuration service.
Practically, it's the other way round as it's easier to use this configuration service as the single source of truth. This is why configuration items key and domain are immutable : services may use hardcoded domain-key pairs. Therefore, only values can be updated.
You need [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/engine/) and its [compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/) plugin.
You also need NodeJS installed locally : we **strongly** advise to install [Node Version Manager](https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm) and use the latest LTS version of Node (check that your local version matches with the one used in the Dockerfile).
The API will run inside a docker container, **but** the install itself is made outside the container, because during development we need tools that need to be available locally (eg. ESLint, Prettier...).
A RabbitMQ instance is also required to send / receive messages when data has been inserted/updated/deleted.