On 20 Oct 14:13, Roman Danko wrote: > 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.
Hello Roman, I am familiar with lest/prometheus-rpm, they are doing a great work here. However, implementing it as is for Prometheus seems to be a no-go for me as building spec files and sysinit files is not maintainable in the long term. Instead, the idea that I have, and which is in a corner of my head for a long time, is to implement deb and rpm packages build within promtool by using https://github.com/goreleaser/nfpm as a library. That way would be more sustainable over the long term, as we have a lot of official exporters which would benefit from it. Instead of creating another configuration file, I think we should work to get more of them reloadable into files. I do like the semantic of 'config options can't be reloaded', but we could improve that and make a lot of them hot-reloadable. However, my attempt to start doing so was stopped early[1], so it is in the freezer until we start discussing Prometheus 3.x [1]: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/7611 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/b4a803a1-22c2-4d49-8121-cd0fce82b1fbn%40googlegroups.com. -- Julien Pivotto @roidelapluie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/20201020213052.GA1391334%40oxygen.
