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[Agent] Allow CLI paths override #17781

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What does this PR do?

Allowing override of configuration using -E flag of two specific cases --path.data --path.home

Why is it important?

Allows having data (download, install) outside of agent directory without manually changing configuration file

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Pinging @elastic/ingest-management (Project:fleet)

@michalpristas michalpristas changed the title Agent override e [Agent] Allow CLI paths override Apr 17, 2020
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not ready for review, libbeat is bugging me with global use of flags

@ph ph marked this pull request as draft April 17, 2020 12:58
@michalpristas michalpristas marked this pull request as ready for review April 17, 2020 14:18
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Changes for Data and home looks good to me but I don't think we have support for -E?

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func init() {
homePath = retrieveExecutablePath()
dataPath = retrieveDataPath()
overwrites = common.SettingFlag(nil, "E", "Configuration overwrite")
common.ConfigOverwriteFlag(nil, overwrites, "path.home", "path.home", "", "Agent root path")
common.ConfigOverwriteFlag(nil, overwrites, "path.data", "path.data", "", "Data path, agent usually look for beats here")
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rename Data path, agent usually look for beats here to Data path contains Agent managed binary")

@@ -50,11 +50,12 @@ func NewCommandWithArgs(args []string, streams *cli.IOStreams) *cobra.Command {

flags := &globalFlags{}

cmd.PersistentFlags().AddGoFlag(flag.CommandLine.Lookup("E"))
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I don't see code to make this work?

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ph commented Apr 24, 2020

@michalpristas for -E lets make it a followup issue, Is there anything that could prevent us to support it ?

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ph commented Apr 24, 2020

@michalpristas I have testes this locally with --path.config and this doesn't appear to work it cannot find the configuration?

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LGTM, can you create an issue to make sure the fleet.yml and the action_store respect theses path?

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Linked #17967

@michalpristas michalpristas merged commit 0df53d3 into elastic:master Apr 28, 2020
v1v added a commit to v1v/beats that referenced this pull request Apr 28, 2020
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* upstream/master:
  ci: comment PRs with the build status (elastic#17971)
  Add domain state metricset to kvm module (elastic#17673)
  [Agent] Allow CLI paths override (elastic#17781)
  Fix generated metricbeat so create-metricset works. (elastic#18020)
  LIBBEAT: Enhancement replace_string processor for replacing strings values of fields. (elastic#17342)
  Update stale references to _xpack to refer to _license instead (elastic#18030)
  Review dependency patterns collection in Jenkins (elastic#18004)
michalpristas added a commit to michalpristas/beats that referenced this pull request May 4, 2020
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LGTM

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