[NIFI-7004] Improve configuration of Nifi

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.10.0
• Component/s: Configuration, Configuration Management
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sushil Kumar
• Created: 09/Jan/20 22:02
• Updated: 09/Jan/20 22:02

Description

There are 2 configuration files which provides nifi for a lot of config values.

bootstrap.conf

nifi.properties

The nifi system does not provides an easy way to override the values in these config files.

Generally the applications are designed in a way to override or use configs from environment values and config-files

It may be that this was not such a big problem when running Nifi on baremetals and managing a machine as an independent machine. However, when one thinks of automating or scripting these operator functions of start/shutdown nodes, add/remove nodes, change configuration values, then it becomes difficult for an operator to manage files on all nodes.

I am looking ahead to Nifi to add some way to read these values from environment variables or config-files.