Service configuration through the UI and in code

We decided to not start with code-based service configuration, but start through the UI as we would feed the same API. This issue summarizes some thoughts how a file-based configuration might work together with the UI.

Release notes

Problem to solve

Proposal

The following decision tree shows a decision tree how the UI works depending if there is a service registry configuration being present or not.

Intended users

Feature Usage Metrics

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Edited by Viktor Nagy (GitLab)