[MESOS-5271] Add alias support for Flags

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Sprint: Mesosphere Sprint 33, Mesosphere Sprint 34
• Story Points: 5
• Assignee: Vinod Kone
• Reporter: Vinod Kone
• Shepherd: Michael Park
• Created: 25/Apr/16 05:41
• Updated: 31/May/16 02:12
• Resolved: 12/May/16 19:16

Description

Currently there is no support for a flag to have an alias. Such support would be useful to rename/deprecate a flag.

For example, for MESOS-4386, we could let the flag have `-authenticate` name and a `-authenticate_frameworks` alias. The alias can be marked as deprecated (need to add support for this as well).

This support will also be useful for slave/agent flag rename. See MESOS-3781 for details.