On 16/02/18 04:56, Juan Hoyos wrote:
Hi there!
In the COMMITTERS.md [0] file it is clearly stated that Puppet uses
Feature Flags as the primary opt-in behavior, but cannot find a clear
location where these are being used. In defaults.rb [1] I see
configuration settings without no explicit distinction between stable or
experimental features.
An experimental status is mentioned in the documentation for such
settings/features.
Where can I find the used Feature Flags with their defaults values?
How is decided that a new feature in Puppet should be behind a Feature Flag?
In Puppet a "feature" is technically something else - it is a mechanism
to detect if being on 'windows' or if some optional thing has been
installed or not.
When we talk about a feature flag we usually mean a setting that affects
the behavior of puppet. --strict_variables in one such setting that is a
"feature flag".
We had one major "feature flag" during the 3.x series for
--compiler=future (or --compiler=current). Which enabled us to introduce
the 4.x language compiler gradually. This feature flag was dropped in
4.x as the future was then the present.
We do not have a standard way of handling "feature flags", it is done on
an ad-hoc basis. Currently we are testing having a single
"all-future-things" flag (which right now means, use with current
version of features to be released in next major). Not sure how many
such actual behaviors we have atm.
I'm currently undergoing an academic research regarding Technical Debt
and Feature Toggles and I'm trying to determine if Puppet is a good
candidate to be analyzed.
Hope my answers above are of some help.
Best,
- henrik
Thank you in advance,
Juan
References:
[0] - https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/master/COMMITTERS.md
[1] -
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/master/lib/puppet/defaults.rb
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