Making changes to templates

[uojiaku]

Hi,

I am trying to add changes to the templates from hiera. For instance these files (10_security.config.erb and condor_config.local.erb) appear in my /etc/condor/config.d dir but how do I modify them from hiera? Also I am trying to add gangliad and then configure '23_ganglia.config.erb' with hiera too.

Thanks in advance,

Uche

[ccnifo]

I would also need some more flexibility in the templates to achieve my target config. After looking at the templates, I saw it cannot be through modifying hiera values.

I see at least 2 possibilities:

• Modifying the templates to integrate more params and conditionnals. That's the cleaner, but also the harder and less flexible way.
• Giving the possibility to add new files in /etc/condor/config.d , which would be read by condor after the others, thus offering the possibility to redefine parameters.

It seems to me that going for both solutions can be a good idea, even though the first method should always be prefered.

[kreczko]

@ccnifo The latter ("possibility to add new files in /etc/condor/config.d") is indeed what we do locally, see
worker example manifest.

We also use hiera to fill the parameters (see htcondor_worker.yaml and node-example.yaml).

This solution allows for customisation while reducing feature-creep in the main package.
I was also thinking of a way to add any parameter to a custom config part (issue #57) but never got around to it.