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• Explain the difference between a singleton and non-singleton type:
  • Reference
• Explain the difference between the different verbosity levels
  • Reference
• Logs (config run dumps per verbosity level)
  • No -v
  • -v (INFO)
  • -vv (VERBOSE)

Explain the difference between a singleton and non-singleton type:

A single type can only be used once per host.

(I don't see yet why this is important.)

Reference

If a type is flagged as a singleton, it may be used only once per host. This is useful for types which can be used only once on a system. Singleton types do not take an object name as argument. (https://www.cdi.st/manual/latest/cdist-type.html?highlight=singleton)

Explain the difference between the different verbosity levels

Verbosity levels are used to change the amount of information that is output on stdout about the configuration run. I can be used for debugging, monitoring and scripting.

Reference

(https://www.cdi.st/manual/latest/cdist-configuration.html?highlight=verbosity)

Logs (config run dumps per verbosity level)

No -v

1lnu:/mnt/cephfs/infra/code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-learning-circle-balazs/balazs/dot-cdist$ cdist config -c . localhost

No output

-v (INFO)

1lnu:/mnt/cephfs/infra/code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-learning-circle-balazs/balazs/dot-cdist$ cdist config -c . -v localhost INFO: localhost: Starting configuration run INFO: localhost: Finished successful run in 7.95 seconds

-vv (VERBOSE)

1lnu:/mnt/cephfs/infra/code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-learning-circle-balazs/balazs/dot-cdist$ cdist config -c . -vv localhost VERBOSE: cdist: version 6.5.4-32-g250161e4 INFO: localhost: Starting configuration run VERBOSE: localhost: Running global explorers VERBOSE: localhost: Running initial manifest tmp/tmpec8j3nyk/421aa90e079fa326b6494f812ad13e79/data/conf/manifest/init VERBOSE: localhost: Preparing object __my_computer

…

VERBOSE: localhost: Running object __package/zsh VERBOSE: localhost: Running object __package/sipcalc VERBOSE: localhost: Running object __package/emacs VERBOSE: localhost: Running object __package/tzdata VERBOSE: localhost: Running object __package/nmap VERBOSE: localhost: Preparing object __link/etc/localtime VERBOSE: localhost: Running manifest and explorers for __link/etc/localtime VERBOSE: localhost: Running type explorers for <CdistType __link> VERBOSE: localhost: Running object __link/etc/localtime VERBOSE: localhost: Running object __my_computer/ VERBOSE: localhost: Running object __timezone/Europe/Zurich INFO: localhost: Finished successful run in 7.58 seconds VERBOSE: config: Total processing time for 1 host(s): 7.591623544692993