--On Friday, September 15, 2017 12:49 AM +0200 Michael Ströder
<[email protected]> wrote:
Personally I strongly prefer static configuration because it's so much
easier to control it with the usual idempotent config management
techniques (puppet, ansible, etc.) which you need for the rest of the
system anyway.
Those are all systems designed to manage flat file configurations.
cn=config is not a flat file configuration, so it makes sense they're
fairly useless when confronted with a concept that's significantly more
forward thinking.
I'd even state that it's a strong plus of OpenLDAP compared to other LDAP
server implementations to still provide this configuration method.
I think it's a strong plus to be able to reconfigure a standalone server
into an MMR cluster with zero downtime, along with other critical
configuration bits, such as deploying new schema, additional overlays, etc.
Being able to fully automate deployments w/o requiring restarts was an
exceptional win for me.
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Product Architect
Symas Corporation
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