Provide reverse engineering feature to build definition.yml

[hadoopch]

Hi all,

it would be a great feature to have some kind of reverse engineering scripts.

Here an example:
An existing cluster was setup without the playbooks.
In the future you will handle everything by the playbooks, e.g.

• change of configuration parameters
• Adding of services
• Adding of instances
• ...

The script extracts the configs from the CM api and generates json . The Json output is then used to create the definition.yml file.

Regards

Uli

[wmudge]

I really like this idea. Given the roadmap for the cloudera.cluster collection, this function should relocate to the cloudera.exe collection, as definition.yml is an "opinionated" configuration. (Roadmap for cloudera.cluster is to clear out a lot of non-Cloudera functions and purpose-built configurations and focus the collection on more compact scope of function. In short, migrate from roles to modules and from external prerequisites to only CLDR bits and endpoints.)