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Most/all modules in here should support returning meaningful diffs on changes.
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It generally feels a bit "empty" if a certificate or similar gets replaced with a simple [changed] notice, having a diff of the actual changes would be really helpful.
Some complications would probably include the fact that there could be private key material leaked and just diffing a DER-encoded file isn't going to help people either... so there should be some way to do the diffs on the parsed + decoded versions of the files we're creating/changing here rather than a straightforward text only diff.
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Most/all modules in here should support returning meaningful diffs on changes.
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COMPONENT NAME
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It generally feels a bit "empty" if a certificate or similar gets replaced with a simple
[changed]
notice, having a diff of the actual changes would be really helpful.See https://blog.networktocode.com/post/generating-diff-with-ansible/ for the general return values expected by Ansible.
Some complications would probably include the fact that there could be private key material leaked and just diffing a DER-encoded file isn't going to help people either... so there should be some way to do the diffs on the parsed + decoded versions of the files we're creating/changing here rather than a straightforward text only diff.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: