Using Viper With Consul to Configure Golang Applications

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Recently I wanted to revamp one of my side projects go-quick. This project is a boilerplate web application meant to be a starting point for Go apps. Previously, I wrote a custom config package within the project to pull configuration from Environment Variables as per the 12 Factor Apps manifest. But, I wanted to expand how users can configure my project.