[wildfly-dev] Creating config files for provisioned servers

[Darran Lofthouse]

This is where I have been saying before why not build all the configs 
using management ops / the CLI?

  - Much easier to define config that tweaks the config that came before.
  - Execute using the CLI and you even get some logic support.
  - Would be compatible if in the future we release distributions that 
don't use XML config persistence.

Regards,
Darran Lofthouse.


On 16/09/14 22:55, Stuart Douglas wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> so I have been giving a bit of thought to how our configuration files
> are generated, and how it can work with feature packs. At the moment
> feature packs just package files with a subsystem list inside, and later
> feature packs configs override configs from their dependents.
>
> I think we should move to an approach where feature packs build on the
> config provided by other feature packs. So the web feature pack config
> will basically express 'add these additional subsystems to
> standalone.xml'. Additional config files can also be created based of
> existing config, so for example standalone-full.xml would be represented
> as 'like standalone.xml, but with these additional subsystems'.
>
> Domain mode would work in a similar manner, but with profiles instead of
> config files (so everything I am saying here about standalone.xml will
> also apply to domain mode).
>
> There are quite a few advantages to this approach:
>
> - As most (all?) configs will use standalone.xml as a base, it makes it
> simple to keep multiple config files in place
> - It is easy for a feature pack to add a subsystem to all configurations
> (e.g. installing the KeyCloak feature pack could add KeyCloak to all
> configs).
> - It is easy to create a new configuration that is the same as existing
> configs, but with an additional subsystem.
>
> Does this sound reasonable?
>
> Stuart
>
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