<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Adrian Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adrian.otto@rackspace.com" target="_blank">adrian.otto@rackspace.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Jun 18, 2013, at 6:09 PM, Angus Salkeld <<a href="mailto:asalkeld@redhat.com">asalkeld@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> To me one of the most powerful and apealing things of Heat is the<br>
> ability to reproducibly re-create a stack from a template. This<br>
> new public API is going to make this difficult.<br>
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</div>Adding an API only makes it difficult if you decide to bypass templates and use the API. You can still be disciplined and keep your templates updated to achieve the reproducible goal. Yes, and API of this sort is a sharp instrument, but it can be useful if applied properly.<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It seems we could trivialize the task of keeping your template up to date by providing an API for fetching a template that reflects the current stack. Does that sound sensible given the current direction of the design of Heat?<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">IRC: radix<div>Christopher Armstrong</div><div>Rackspace</div></div>
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