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> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ian Collier said:
> My view at this point is that better packaging, documentation and
> simplified configuration and a yaim-like tool - along with effort to
> support the driving of said yaim-like tool from other config management
> systems is probably the best bet.
I think one general question of philosophy is whether you want the configuration for different services to be unified. At the moment yaim has a lot of variables in a generic style, and it then writes them into service-specific config files and scripts which vary quite widely in format. If you start de-yaimifying things you could go in two possible directions - either accept that all services are different and configure each one in its own way, or have some global config file replicating (some of) the information currently in yaim variables and get each service to use it. Which of those would be preferred?
Stephen
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