record-elektra Use Cases

The contained use cases are both from a developer side and user side.

The main use case is interactive configuration.

User-oriented Use Cases

• Concerning libelektra:
  • Allow the recording of changes in the KDB
  • Export certain keys as Ansible playbook
• Concerning ansible-libelektra:
  • Allow for keys to be deleted using ansible-libelektra
  • Allow specifying how conflicts are to be handled in ansible-libelektra
  • Assert certain values for keys for the execution to continue
  • Start session recording after Ansible run
  • Allow different configurations for different hosts

Developer-oriented Use Cases

• Allow plugins to be notified when data changes
• Provide an API to know which keys caused a conflict on merge