This original thread was from quite a long time ago, and there have been many improvements since then, one of which is a variable registry that is exposed directly through the UI [1] and does not require bouncing the NiFi instance.
[1] https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/html/user-guide.html#Variables_Window On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 6:51 AM Abhay Pasad <adpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > One of the major issues with an external variable registry file which we > refer to in the nifi.properties file is that it needs NiFi instance to be > bounced. While this may serve your purpose in the lower environments in a > purpose, at an enterprise level cluster this might not be feasible in higher > environments like Production. What this also means is that due to lack of > common global variables/parameters, you may need to spin up a new controller > service every time. I think a Configuration service is a must and should be > worked upon. :) > > > > -- > Sent from: http://apache-nifi-developer-list.39713.n7.nabble.com/
