Out of the box configuration management plugin for child devices

[albinsuresh]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently, a child device needing configuration management needs to develop a child device configuration management agent as per the specification here. It would have been better of an out-of-the-box agent was available that the user could just install on his device.

Describe the solution you'd like

An out-of-the-box lightweight tedge-configuration-plugin for Linux based devices, which can be repurposed from the existing c8y-configuration-plugin by making it respond to tedge config_snapshot and config_update commands instead of the c8y_UploadConfigFile and c8y_DownloadConfigFile operations from Cumulocity directly. Rest of its functionality like the usage of c8y-configuration-plugin.toml file for the supported config list management etc can stay the same way.

One additional functionality that this new plugin would need, which is absent in the c8y-configuration-plugin, is the ability to invoke a third-party logic/script on a config_snapshot and config_update request, which typically will contain the logic to perform the actual configuration read/update from/to the external physical child device over some proprietary protocol.

[reubenmiller]

Similar topic to

• Support running tedge-agent on a child device #2018
• Move cloud specific logic out of plugins #2017

[rina23q]

It's outdated and the topic is covered by the work of #2098. Therefore, I'd close the ticket.