Rudder

Forgot one key point from my scratch note, i'll just quote it

Export AND make accessible dependency graphs for node policies

I love that.

And so, we could say that Rudder is doing Big Data and Data mining, so big plus in buzz words (devops, cloud, big data is a full row in my bingo card).
More seriously, we need these dependency graph to be able to make more interesting stuff in techniques (or even generic method) and of course rule dependency management.

This will come along nicelly with the ability to tag things (rules, directives, groups, etc), and have analysis or reporting for them. Or even event-triggering based on the evolution of the analysis ("look, 42 % of my things tag "datacenter-XYZ have been in error in the last 6 hours, something is not going well")

I'm not sure exactly what we can provide and how to show it, but your propisition are a good starting point.

OK, that won't go realistically in 3.1, but I open in my text book a new major topic "do better analysis"