[NIFI-8851] Two-way synchronization of git repository backed flows

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: NiFi Registry
• Labels: git
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Dennis Seiffert
• Created: 26/Mar/19 12:52
• Updated: 16/Jul/21 15:13

Description

With this feature the NiFi user and developer's life using git as version control as a backend for the registry would be easier (especially in dockerized environments). As a conclusion the git repository would be the single source of truth in order to maintain NiFi flows. This feature contains the following abilities without affecting existing functionality:

• synchronize remote git repository with local (nifi- registry) git repository in order to support multiple registries (imagine changing a flow in a test environment and update the flow in a productive environment via feature branches in git, etc. ) and third party systems (git changes not done by the registry, repair broken flow file because of changed registry url in flow xml)
• initial import of git repository into registry's metadata database on startup (see open issue #NIFIREG-227)
• ability to reset local git repository (including metadata database) to the state of the remote repository 
• get recent status of synchronization process
• control synchronization via REST- endpoints (reset repository to initial state, pull latest changes from git remote repository

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #166