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Workflow Engine for provisioning Bare Metal
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How to use and set the Ephemeral Data? #194

Closed rgl closed 3 years ago

rgl commented 4 years ago

https://github.com/tinkerbell/tink/blob/master/docs/concepts.md#ephemeral-data describes that we can use and access Ephemeral Data, but how are we supposed to do that?

Is there a way to bootstrap the workflow ephemeral data when we create the workflow?

Reading the code it seems that tink-worker will sync the /workflow/data file (and not the /workflow/data.json as depicted in the documentation) with hegel when a workflow starts/ends, is that really what is happening?

For reference, this is the part of the code that reads and writes the /workflow/data file to hegel:

ScottGarman commented 3 years ago

Thanks for this issue report. I believe we have much improved documentation on this now, see the Ephemeral Data section on this page: https://docs.tinkerbell.org/workflows/working-with-workflows/. If there is something still missing from this doc, please open a new issue with details.