Closed MadelineRitchie closed 7 years ago
@JasonRitchie the link is a logical one, not an actual link in collins. Depending on your environment, you could create a myservice-vip
Configuration Asset that has the frontend IP, and then set a VIP=myservice-vip
attribute on assets that you want to use this vip. Your automation can then know to lookup the asset in VIP if present when performing any kind of configuration for a backend device. This could be helped in the UI with [tag decorators](https://tumblr.github.io/collins/configuration.html#tag decorators) to make the VIP value a link to the asset. Generally, its an organizational convention to assign semantics to (and respect) different tags.
I've done something similar to this for a few different companies using Collins, and its worked well. Does that help answer your question?
I understand now. Thank you for the clear and complete response. It looks like a tag decorator will fit my needs.
Ok, cool! Glad to hear. If you find you have a useful pattern and feel like writing up a quick tutorial to help others, would you mind opening a PR against the gh-pages
branch to update docs?
The Concepts page states the following:
I cannot find instructions or examples showing how to do this.