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| reclass to-do list |
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| Testing framework |
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| There is rudimentary testing in place, but it's inconsistent. I got |
| side-tracked into discussions about the philosphy of mocking objects. This |
| could all be fixed and unified. |
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| Also, storage, outputters, CLI and adapters have absolutely no tests yet… |
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| Configurable file extension |
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| Right now, ``.yml`` is hard-coded. This could be exported to the |
| configuration file, or even given as a list, so that ``.yml`` and ``.yaml`` |
| can both be used. |
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| Verbosity, debugging |
| -------------------- |
| Verbose output and debug logging would be a very useful addition to help |
| people understand what's going on, where data are being changed/merged, and to |
| help solve problems. |
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| Default classes |
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| Through the configuration file, it should be possible to define a set of |
| default classes that are applied to all nodes (before anything else). |
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| This would be covered by the next point: |
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| Wildcards, regexp→class mapping |
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| I envision the ability to define mappings between regexps and classes, e.g.:: |
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| /^www\d+/ → webservers |
| /\.ch\./ → hosted@switzerland |
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| These classes would be applied before a YAML file matching the actual hostname |
| would be read and merged. |
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| Data from CMS for interpolation |
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| Depending on the CMS in question, it would be nice if |reclass| had access to |
| the host-specific data (facts, grains, etc.) and could use those in parameter |
| interpolation. I can imagine this working for Salt, where the ``grains`` |
| dictionary (and results from previous external node classifiers) is made |
| available to the external node classifiers, but I am not convinced this will |
| be possible in Ansible and Puppet. |
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| Ideally, |reclass| could unify the interface so that even templates can be |
| shared between the various CMS. |