Provisioning plugins should have a method of setting jail specific "facts"

igalic commented 5 years ago

I propose a new entry to the provision config space: a dict of facts.

the name is up for discussion, since every configuration management software names them differently:

puppet has facter facts
chef has ohai attributes (and hints)
Ansible's setup module gathers facts, and can utilise either of the above to its advantage
salt has grains

i could go on, but these are the systems i have at least passing familiarity with.

Each of them also has a concept of a "custom fact". These are most often used to classify the system, e.g.: assign a specific role.

igalic commented 5 years ago

unless this is already possible in the API, this issue depends on https://github.com/bsdci/ioc/issues/18

igalic commented 5 years ago

libioc.Config.Data.Data.__iter__() only returns the flat structure:

which might make it tricky to get an entire dict from it…

igalic commented 5 years ago

n.b.: I'm using that exact example code ;)

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