Consider a configuration switch that will execute APBs in ansible verbose mode for debugging purposes.

[eriknelson]

Came up on the CEE call. SSIA.

[shawn-hurley]

I think that this should be a generic flag, that tells a bundle to run in verbose mode and the base for that bundle know's how to translate that?

[eriknelson]

@shawn-hurley what do you mean generic flag? something other than a setting in the configmap? Was thinking something like _apb_verbose_output and the base would tack on -vvv in its presence.

[shawn-hurley]

I was thinking something like _bundle_verbose_output.

[eriknelson]

Ah right. That's more correct, I would just request that we update all of the flags so things remain consistent, which is probably 2 PRs.

First: move from _apb -> _bundle, which means updating docs and images. Then add this flag in a follow up.

[jmrodri]

Funny, I thought it would be cool to have an endpoint on the broker that could have it dump debug information as well. I'll formulate a better idea and create an issue for this scenario.

[rthallisey]

execute ansible with -vvvvvv

[jmrodri]

[09:53] <@jmrodri> or is it purely a pass through to the bundle?
[09:53] <@ernelson> jmrodri: I think it's a passthrough
[09:53] <@shurley> +1

[eriknelson]

See ansible -vvv flag.

[mhrivnak]

During the IRC meeting just now, it was agreed that this should be a generic setting that is not ansible-specific. Lots of things have a verbose mode and could make use of this flag. Suggested actions:

• add the setting to the bundle contract document
• define that a service bundle should make a best effort to generate verbose output when the setting is true

[djzager]

Just wanted to point out in here. That one of the things I learned from the helm registry adapter experiment, creating Specs from scratch, is that it is possible for us to add (from the broker) this verbose flag as a parameter to all plans such that Service Bundle Developers would not have to explicitly add this as a parameter.

Example:

apb.ParameterDescriptor{
    Name:            "verbose",
    Title:               "Verbose",
    Type:              "boolean",
    Default:           false,
    Updatable:      flase,
    Required:        false,
},

[jmrodri]

@djzager this looks very useful, how hard do you think it would be to implement this?

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