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Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius <nico@kr.ethz.ch>
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DESCRIPTION
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Starting the execution of deployment with cdist-deploy-to(1),
cdist passes through different stages:
cdist passes through different stages, each can be triggered
and debugged on its own.
- First stage: Get information about target
Every existing explorer is run on the target and the results
are copied back into the local cache.
The results can be used by manifests and types.
See cdist-explorers(7) and see cdist-cache(7).
STAGE 1: TARGET INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
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In this stage information is collected about target using
so called explorers.
Every existing explorer is run on the target and the output
of all explorers are copied back into the local cache.
The results can be used by manifests and types.
See cdist-explorers(7) and see cdist-cache(7).
- Second stage: Initial manifest run
The initial manifest (see cdist-manifests(7) is run,