A couple of days ago there was a rather brief discussion in IRC regarding the generation of Aurora configuration files:
> 00:16 <benley> random poll: anyone know who is something other than the > normal Python DSL for building Aurora jobs? > 00:17 <benley> I know some people are using flabbergast, and rafik was at > least experimenting with Nix to generate them > 00:17 <benley> and I've been tinkering with using Jsonnet to generate them, > which ends up being quite similar to Flabbergast > 00:19 <wfarner> benley: i don't know of any other DSLs, but i have heard of a > few distillations into essentially properties files > 00:21 <benley> that makes sense - heavily templating a job definition so it's > generally applicable I find this topic quite interesting. Does anyone has some experiences to share with the mailinglist? What was your the main motivation using an additional configuration or templating mechanism? Did it pay off? Thanks and Best Regards, Stephan
