Github user cestella commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/760 A bit on the second point: I would argue this is a new (more correct) take if, for no other reason, that there isn't to my my knowledge other patterns to emulate here (other projects don't let ambari have control over their zk configs). The problem was letting ambari own the whole global config on disk in the first place via the templating system. This moves to a more rational approach of just having ambari apply patches to the config within the global config that it owns, rather than controlling the whole file/global config.
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