[Kea-users] Wildcard Includes in Kea configuration

[Michael Schwartzkopff]

On 15.08.22 09:36, Carsten Strotmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (this is a question that came up as a follow up from a Kea DHCP training from one participant)
>
> is it possible to include multiple files into the Kea configuration using wildcards in the include statement?
>
> This might help with a setup where the configuration file has been split into snippets managed by a configuration management tool.
>
> I recognise that because of the nature of the Kea configuration file format (JSON) includes are very much position dependent and such a scheme can easy break in the case where the config files are manually managed, but it would help with automatic management systems (puppet, chef, ansible etc).
>
> Would such a function be useful?
>
> Greetings
>
> Carsten
>
>

I don't know if an automation will produce different files with 
"unpredicable" names that would have to be included into KEA with a 
wildcard option. I think that files names from an automation are 
predicable and can be just like that included into KEA.


For testing I wrote an automation with ansible that takes the 
information from netbox and generates the includes files for KEA. See: 
https://blog.sys4.de/netbox-kea-dhcp-en.html




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