Chef and Salt users, we are changing reports

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Hey there!

We are redeisining configuration reports from scratch, so far we have a good common data structure for both Puppet and Ansible, however, there are other plugins and config formats.

I would like you guys to review the proposal and add your own ideas in terms of Chef ans Salt:

New config report summary columns

Hey, we are working on a new config report format. There was a great discussion on the mapping of status/metric from Puppet and Ansible, I think this deserves its own thread. This page is a wiki and I will be updating it to fine-tune according to the proposals. Summary These fields are stored in reports table as integer column and represent the following: changed - number or changes (events) occured in the report unchanged - number of resources/actions that are aligned with configuration …

The design should be flexible enought that possibly any cfgmgmt tool should map to this, but let us know if there is something big missing.

We are aiming that in 3.2 the new report format will be available as a plugin and in 3.3 we will remove the Foreman core reporting functionality completely. At this point, if your plugin uses Reports or ConfigReports tables, it will cease to work.