Hi Thomas, According to kafka's documentation: http://kafka.apache.org/07/configuration.html there should be a default value for any added property; I would expect the provided server.properties file to actually reflect those default values. Therefore, I'd look twice before overconstraining the problem, and would just generate the file for those and only those dictionary values that have been set in the appConfig (which currently, my code does not, it configures too many properties statically, but it can be arranged), relying on the default properties for the rest.
If there's really a case to have all properties at hand, I could: * parse the properties file provided in the tarball * re-generate the whole conf file with the parsed + overrides This, in order to allow for *added* properties (which the current schemes, either mine or yours, does not look to allow) AND ultimately, allow for the whole tarball installation to be switched to read-only (which could allow them to be shared among instances running on the same NM; I don't know if slider currently does this kind of optimization). Maybe guidance from people more familiar with slider than us would be needed here :) Kind regards, JB
