Ability to provide properties (user / password) from command line

[rlouapre]

This is useful from CI script.

[grtjn]

Can you elaborate a bit on the use case?

You can add new environments, like my-local, local2, local-deploy, prod2, and put any relevant settings in xxx.properties in deploy/. You can also leave password blank in properties, and it should ask for it in most cases at runtime.

[rlouapre]

I need to execute ml command from a build script on a CI server. It does not make sense for security reason to store credentials in configuration in this scenario.

[dmcassel]

We've agreed (offline) that command-line properties are to be validated against the properties in the files. A command line property that does not correspond to one in the .properties files would trigger an error. The property does not have to be set with a value. So you could set up:

yoda-age=

And then run

./ml local deploy modules --ml.yoda-age=900