normal vs default attribute

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normal vs default attribute

phoolish opened this issue 9 years ago · 8 comments

Why is a normal attribute used vs a default attribute on https://github.com/rackspace-cookbooks/elkstack/blob/master/attributes/logstash.rb#L2 ? Is this due to an upstream cookbook?

Answer 1 · 2015-11-11T21:38:47.000Z

Yes, at the time it was due to the upstream cookbook.

Answer 2 · 2015-11-11T21:41:26.000Z

There's some major releases pending in elasticsearch (the cookbook) tied to v2.0.0 of Elasticsearch (the software project), but then I'd like to do a big refactor of elkstack to catch it up to the new versions.

Answer 3 · 2015-11-11T21:44:13.000Z

That sounds great. I'd be interested in assisting (especially with the logstash integration) as we use this cookbook pretty extensively in our setup.

Answer 4 · 2015-11-11T21:44:57.000Z

@phoolish That would be wonderful! Honestly, we could start any time.

Answer 5 · 2015-11-11T21:45:52.000Z

I think we're looking at:
https://github.com/elastic/cookbook-elasticsearch/tree/2.0.0_wip (will be merged to master)
https://github.com/lusis/chef-logstash (master as of now)
https://github.com/lusis/chef-kibana (master as of now)

So I'm thinking we'd bump to those, and then refactor.

Answer 6 · 2015-11-11T21:51:26.000Z

That makes sense. Could you also elaborate on #136?

Answer 7 · 2015-11-11T21:55:20.000Z

@phoolish I tried to update that. At it's core, it's basically "refactor" so we are doing the interesting work around E, L, and K but not necessarily write custom implementations of things like SSL certificates.

Answer 8 · 2015-11-11T22:03:50.000Z

Seems like the right approach. I'll get started tomorrow.