Hi,

before replying in details, you have the concept of profile in Karaf
as well, here's the corresponding example:

https://github.com/apache/karaf/tree/main/examples/karaf-profile-example

It's pretty close to Fabric8 profiles afaik.

Regards
JB

On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 6:28 PM Ephemeris Lappis
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> Before my question I'm going to try to explain the context of my works...
>
> I'm working on the redesign of projects (Camel routes + common
> services that are some kind of framework for about a hundred ESB
> modules) that currently relies on Red-Hat Fuse 6.3.
>
> On Fuse, the deployment unit is based on the fabric8 profile. Thus,
> our services or routes bundles are built as profiles, and our
> deployments playbook use the Jolokia API to deploy/update these
> bundles as installed profiles that are next assigned to Karaf
> containers in our clusters. Karaf containers pull the bundles code
> using from our artifacts repository.
>
> Parallely, bundles that need an external configuration have their
> properties installed by other roles of our playbooks that build them
> with values that depend on the target environment, using technical
> variables that come from the Ansible inventories, security data
> (passwords, keys, etc.) from a credentials manager, and other business
> variables that come from external files retrieved as configuration
> projects stored in Git.
>
> I plan to use Karaf features to replace the fabric8 profiles, and
> manage our bundles and their dependencies. Using features, I can also
> set configuration files with default values that can be installed in
> Karaf "etc" folder. My first tests work as expected on Karaf 4.4.x
> with a clustered configuration that uses Cellar.
>
> But default configuration files that are linked to the features in
> Nexus do not match our needs to build environment dependent properties
> as explained before.
>
> Finally, my question : what could be the best way to deploy or update
> configuration properties on Karaf clusters, scripting it in Ansible
> playbooks, and, if possible, using "standard" means and API like
> Jolokia ?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Regards.

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