I use promethes installed by cloudalchemy.prometheus ansible role, which setups systemd service. I would like to contribute to building rpm package for prometheus, which would enable to use system packager to install & update. There is already present project which creates packages for various proemtheus components & exporters https://github.com/lest/prometheus-rpm. They are doing great work however I have some improvements, which are impossible without support from prometheus itself. Specifically I would like to get rid of using /etc/default as config, which is legacy way and should be done like proposed in http://0pointer.net/blog/projects/on-etc-sysinit.html. Long story short, either by overriding systemd service params or by loading config from /etc ny progrqm itself. I think that first one would be ok if configuratiom necessary to override wasn't spaghetti one-liner(command-line flags). I know about philosophy around keeping hot-reloadable config options in file and other one as comand-line args, however this could be done by separate config which would not be hot-reloadable. Treaefik use two configs for exactly same reason. Why not do it this way and get closer to be more convenient for users which run prometheus natively without containers.
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