[Proxies] production environment MUST load appsettings.Production.json

[bacongobbler]

This is in contrast to ASP.NET's convention where production data is generally hosted in appsettings.json and optionally overridden by other environment-specific settings.

This is likely due to this line marking the file as mandatory via the optional flag:

hippo/Hippo/Program.cs

Line 57 in d706d64

.AddJsonFile($"appsettings.{hostingContext.HostingEnvironment.EnvironmentName}.json", optional: false, reloadOnChange: true)

If the file is not present, hippo-server fails to run.

I imagine the same would apply if I set the environment to something else like ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Staging.

[bacongobbler]

Most of this issue stems from the fact that there's an appsettings.json as well as an appsettings.Development.json file for YARP, but no appsettings.Production.json file.

Based on the content of appsettings.json I'm assuming this was meant to be what hippo should use as production configuration.

OTOH Hippo (the API server) does not require an appsettings.Production.json file to be present to run.