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Be able to group several modifications under only one save (change request)

Added by Olivier Mauras over 9 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

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Web - Config management
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Description

Hello,

Following our discussion on IRC, it would be great to have a way to commit multiple actions at once instead of having Rudder launch a generation each time.
Example 1 - New service implementation:
- Create a new group and add nodes in there
- Create a directive to manage services
- Create a directive to handle packages
- Create a directive to manage configuration files
- Finally add a rule to apply directives on the group

This amounts to 5 non really needed generations that could have easily been replaced by only one when done with the work

Example 2 - Heavy modification of an existing service:
For each directive changes on this service, i'll have a generation running, this could lead to nodes fetching intermediate configuration that could potentially break the service.
This could be avoided by having a way to commit when the work is done and nodes would only sync a clean configuration.

Thanks,
Olivier


Related issues 2 (2 open0 closed)

Related to Rudder - User story #5572: Change management: Feature to group change requests by external change idNew2014-09-26Actions
Related to Rudder - User story #7923: Combine multiple Change Requests into a bundled one in the Change- and Validation workflowNew2016-02-15Actions
Actions #1

Updated by Dennis Cabooter over 9 years ago

Sounds like database transactions. +1

Actions #2

Updated by François ARMAND over 9 years ago

  • Subject changed from Commit button to Commit button to groups modifications under only one change request
Actions #3

Updated by Matthieu CERDA over 9 years ago

  • Target version changed from 140 to 3.0.0~beta1
Actions #4

Updated by François ARMAND over 9 years ago

We thought at that use case, and we may have a solution really neat for user workflow: just add a "grace period" before a promise generation (say 5 minutes for the sack of the example).

With that, the generation is triggered only after the expiration of the grace period. New modification saved during the grace period set back the counter to 0.

If the user want to trigger the generation without waiting 5 minutes, it can be done manually.

It seems to match quite nicelly your use case. Do you see some drawback we missed with that solution ?

Actions #5

Updated by François ARMAND over 9 years ago

To answer myself: there is at least one drawback which choosing a correct time for the grace period.
A too short one will forbid to actually do any other relevant update. A too long one introduce a big delay between modification and actual generation - not exactly like if we didn't have already a good share of 5min delays.

Actions #6

Updated by Jonathan CLARKE over 9 years ago

  • Target version changed from 3.0.0~beta1 to 3.0.0~beta2
Actions #7

Updated by François ARMAND over 9 years ago

  • Target version changed from 3.0.0~beta2 to 3.1.0~beta1

This won't be done in 3.0.

Actions #8

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ almost 9 years ago

  • Target version changed from 3.1.0~beta1 to 3.1.0~rc1
Actions #9

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ almost 9 years ago

  • Target version changed from 3.1.0~rc1 to 3.1.0
Actions #10

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ over 8 years ago

  • Target version changed from 3.1.0 to 3.1.1
Actions #11

Updated by Vincent MEMBRÉ over 8 years ago

  • Target version changed from 3.1.1 to 3.1.2
Actions #12

Updated by Jonathan CLARKE over 8 years ago

  • Target version changed from 3.1.2 to Ideas (not version specific)
Actions #13

Updated by Janos Mattyasovszky over 7 years ago

  • Related to User story #7923: Combine multiple Change Requests into a bundled one in the Change- and Validation workflow added
Actions #14

Updated by François ARMAND about 6 years ago

  • Subject changed from Commit button to groups modifications under only one change request to Be able to group severam modifications under only one save (change request)
  • Assignee deleted (François ARMAND)
Actions #15

Updated by Alexis Mousset over 5 years ago

  • Subject changed from Be able to group severam modifications under only one save (change request) to Be able to group several modifications under only one save (change request)
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