Re: Making NiFi upgrade smoother

2017-04-25 Thread Yolanda Davis
Hi Andre, Realized I responded on the wrong thread... Just wanted to add my thoughts on this. One of the things I have been thinking and working through in creating utilities to automate upgrades (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-3663) is creating the ability to migrate to new

Re: Making NiFi upgrade smoother

2017-04-25 Thread Yolanda Davis
Hi Andre, Just wanted to add my thoughts on this. One of the things I have been thinking and working through in creating utilities to automate upgrades (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-3663) is creating the ability to migrate to new configurations/settings, especially in the

Making NiFi upgrade smoother

2017-04-25 Thread Andre F de Miranda
dev, What do you think about the idea of allowing an user to configure overrides for the "master" configuration files in order to smooth upgrades? In my opinion candidates would be_ bootstrap.conf_ and _nifi.properties_ as they contain the links to all other files (logback.xml excluded). Upon