Rudder

Local override works more like a replacement than a merge, which makes it quite unexpected

If we have local node properties json file with:

{
"properties":{
"property_key1":"local node prop",
"property_key2":{
"more":"local node prop",
"and":"local node prop",
},
}
}

The agent then load node properties from /var/rudder/cfengine-community/inputs/properties.d/ and from /var/rudder/local/properties.d/, and merge them at the "properties"'s children level with local properties winning;

So if Rudder properties was:

{
"properties":{
"property_key0":"from rudder",
"property_key1":{
"key1":"from rudder",
"key2":"from rudder also"
},
"property_key2":{
"key1":"from rudder",
"key2":"from rudder also"
},
}
}

The results is:

{
"properties":{
"property_key0":"from rudder",
"property_key1":"local node prop",
"property_key2":{
"more":"local node prop",
"and":"local node prop"
},
}
}

but what we really expect is:

{
"properties":{
"property_key0":"from rudder",
"property_key1":"local node prop",
"property_key2":{
"key1":"from rudder",
"key2":"from rudder also",
"more":"local node prop",
"and":"local node prop"
},
}
}