[rudder-users] question on policy change tracking

[Francois Armand]

Hello,

You are right that the changes are only followed for 
rules/directives/parameters/groups, and not techniques.
The reason is a bad one (historically, "technique" was a bit appart, 
with simpler update workflows, and we are working to set-them back in 
the common one).

The changes are still traced (you can see in "event logs" that a 
technique changed, and of course the 
`/var/rudder/configuration-repository` git repository store all 
changes), but the UX is not yet the same as for rules/etc. We are 
working on it. In 6.0, we did some backend changes that were necessary 
to bring back together techniques and other configuration elements, and 
in 7.0 (next year) they should have the same status as other.

The change validation plugin allows to add a validation workflow (with 
mandatory review/validation) with the same scope.

Hope it helps !


<http://www.rudder.io/> 	*François ARMAND*
CTO
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On 14/11/2019 21:08, tim taler wrote:
> Hi all,
> while evaluating rudder, momentarily with the (free) community version,
> I see that "some" changes I do on the graphical frontend are leading
> to a popup window that requests a comment on the policy change.
> That is IMO a nice feature, making changes more transparent.
> But than there are a whole bunch of changes I can do - even to active
> techniques - which seems not to be tracked with a mandatory comment
> (change of file attributes, add end remove of commands etc etc)
>
> I don't quite understand why keeping track of "some" policy changes
> but not of others; or do I miss something?
> Does the licensed version behave the same?
> Could I enforce the mandatory commenting (and thus keeping track) of
> each and any change (at least of "active" policies, i.e. a policy that
> is or could be applied to any potential instance in the pool)
>
> TIA & best regards
>
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