Manage xml.files with augeas

[mkrakowitzer]

Rather that manage the template files with a static template. Modify them with the augeas provider.

[jyaworski]

Is there a benefit to augeas vs. templating? A template is arguably easier to manage, and with hiera it can be pretty detailed.

[mkrakowitzer]

The only benefit is Atlassian tend to modify the xml files between minor versions and its hard to keep track of the changes they make and then update the template, by using augeas you get the updates per release of the xml file when it is deployed, and we modify it accordingly. That is the only benefit.

[juniorsysadmin]

It depends what xml files you're talking about, but they don't seem to modify them that often