Re: Configuring OpenWhisk

[Chetan Mehrotra <ch...@gmail.com>]

> Currently, we can simply run "docker inspect" to see the configured
values,
> but with this change, we need a base64 decoder every time.

Yes that would be required. Another approach can be to use the plain env
support (#3984)  which uses `OPENWHISK_CONFIG` env variable. We found this
to be problematic in some cases where env values were specified in json.
Hence defaulting to encoded approach on safe side

Chetan Mehrotra


On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 7:19 AM Dominic Kim <st...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Chetan.
>
> Sometimes OW operators want to check the configuration of running
> controllers and invokers.
> Currently, we can simply run "docker inspect" to see the configured values,
> but with this change, we need a base64 decoder every time.
> I hope this part is also considered in the change.
>
> Thanks
> Best regards
> Dominic
>
> 2019년 2월 27일 (수) 오후 7:57, Chetan Mehrotra <ch...@gmail.com>님이
> 작성:
>
> > This is a followup on a long pending todo [1] around how we configure
> > OpenWhisk.
> >
> > I have added a wiki proposal [2] which documents the current mode of
> > configuring OpenWhisk and then proposes on how to configure going
> forward.
> >
> > PR 4309 [3] is also related to same which enables using typesafe config
> > directly in ansible based deployment. Similar changes can later be don in
> > kube and docker-compose based setup
> >
> > Kindly have a look and we can discuss in next Tech Interchange call
> >
> > Chetan Mehrotra
> > [1]
> >
> >
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ae781754107edcebc7e07fb0cf60d9c50531e3741bcea64cb6298939@%3Cdev.openwhisk.apache.org%3E
> > [2]
> >
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OPENWHISK/Configuring+OpenWhisk
> > [3] https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk/pull/4309
> >
>