The behavior I'm looking for is something like this: Export all deltas for all configuration files beyond settings that are built-in defaults for Hortonworks installation. I believe this would be defined as version numbers > 1 (is that correct?) Import these into a newly-built cluster and be prompted for manual intervention when a delta includes a machine name, IP address or port (the latter can probably be determined by a regex match on the property name). As an audit tool, the presentation of environment (shell) scripts should be in the form of unified diffs rather than a dump of the entire file at each revision. Just a few ideas off the top of my head. There's no way this process can be totally automated, but I think it's possible to get very close.
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