[RADIATOR] Questions regarding new release and current roadmap

[shaun gibson]

On 29/06/2016 13:23, Nadav Hod wrote:

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> 2.5) I probably wasn't clear enough. The include command isn't what I'm looking for since that takes blocks of configuration, not variables, and embeds it in the current configuration. It can't be used to extract a specific variable within that external file. A header file isn't a configuration file which is put into another configuration file, it's just variables and declarations.
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> I've used Radiator 4.15, and I couldn't use external variables as part of parameters in order to make a generic configuration. What I'm looking for is something like the following:  assume I have an AuthBy LDAP2 clause. I would like to declare:
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> Host %{GlobalVar:my_ldap_variables.txt::FirstHost}    
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> In this example my_ldap_variables.txt contains variables bindings for LDAP configurations, FirstHost being one of them.
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> Something like this, as far as I can tell, isn't possible today. I would need to have FirstHost configured within the local configuration file. 
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> If I could create a directory on each server that contains files, each of which contain variables relevant to that file, it would make things very easy and manageable. I could put the same Radiator configuration on each server, and just update the variables per server.
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> Is this possible with Radiator using existing features?
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hi nadav

there is no need for radiator to do any of the above as there are
numerous tools/suites for exactly this sort of thing : saltstack,
puppet, ansible, chef et al




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