[Question] What is the goal of this formula? Why including other states like postgresql here?

[Darkentik]

Hey,
i wonder why here are included more than icinga2 states such like postgresql, that have their own formula.
I think this is not a good idea.
According to my other question about HA setup with satellites and more, i think that it would be better to focus on icinga2 components only.
Maybe we could split icingaweb2 as own state into its own formula.
In our company we follow a service splitting concept so we have our icinga stack with icinga master, icingaweb2, mariadb server, grafana and influxdb all on separate virtuell machines on each location.

I am interested in hearing your opinions.

Best regards,
Darkentik

[alxwr]

Hi, Darkentik!

The main reason (at the time) was to provide an easy way to set up PostgreSQL, iirc.

After a quick look at https://github.com/saltstack-formulas/icinga2-formula/blob/master/icinga2/postgresql-server.sls I suggest the following:

• make use_formula: True the default
• move the 'use the formula' parts to icinga2/icinga-web2.sls
• drop icinga2.postgresql.server
• drop icinga2.postgresql.client

Wdyt? @Darkentik @baby-gnu

PS
Sry for the long delay!