Thanks for the presentation of the idea, I have two remarks to it:
On 11. 03. 21 10:46, Vojtech Polasek wrote:
Hello all,
I would like to introduce a planed improvement within the area of
applicability of rules / groups / profiles for specific platforms. I
would like to ask you to provide feedback, especially with regards to
content authoring experience.
...
We would like to change this and make applicability more flexible.
Changes are planed for profile, group and rule definitions.
The first change should allow to define multiple independent
platforms. A new keyword "platforms" will be added. It will expect a
list of platforms. All platforms in the list will be connected with
"OR". For example, for the rule about ntpd and chrony, you could specify:
I get the benefit, but I see one possible issue - Ansible also has a
yaml key that may contain a list of conditions, but there is the AND
relationship between them:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_conditionals.html
Ansible uses a nice trick to offload conditional handling to jinja2, so
we could draw inspiration from that.
OTOH, I get that the word "platforms" clearly points towards OR
relationship of list items, and one would expect "narrow_platform_down"
for a list joined by AND. Anyway, if there is a more illustrative term
than "platforms", it would be nice if someone came up with it.
```
platforms:
- ntp
- chrony
```
The change is backward compatible, it is still possible to specify
single platform through
```
platform: platform_name
```
This change is already being implemented here:
https://github.com/ComplianceAsCode/content/pull/6661
We chose this approach because it is easy to implement. XCCDF
specification already allows to specify multiple platforms per
group/profile/rule and they are implicitly connected with OR.
The next step will be implementing of support for specification of
multiple combined platforms (joining platforms with AND).
The specification would utilize the previous syntax but additionally
it could include a special character, e.g. &.
To specify applicability only for cases when Grub2 and UEFI are
present at the same time, it could be:
```
platforms:
- grub2 & uefi
```
To specify platform for Zipl or Grub2 bootloader but only if UEFI is
used, it could be:
```
platforms:
- zipl & uefi
- grub2 & uefi
```
FTR, we already have "inherited_platforms" key in compiled rules, where
list items are obviously joined by AND.
The question is whether we should keep "inherited_platforms" and
"platforms" (maybe renamed to "rule_platforms") separate, or whether we
should unravel those to simply "platforms" that will feature a list with
logical expressions. See e.g. the RHEL8-compiled rule file
build/rhel8/rules/sssd_ldap_configure_tls_reqcert.yml
The question is how would we like this in the future - right now, the
rule depends on its group that can restrict its platform scope by a
platform. That sounds logical and generally good, but is this solution
flexible enough so we won't have to create artificial groups, or to use
macros to supply complex platforms lists to individual rules because we
want a specific platform applicability?
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