Display short field when running tasks

[Pierre Baillet]

This is a feature request. Not sure this is an actual use case.

In my tasks, I run several generated tasks from one single task (such as apps:upload that will upload a bunch of apps on a server).

The fact that Orbit does not show any information about the tasks it runs is a bit confusing. I had to recode some artificial debug info to make that more easy:

{{- $title := printf "Render and deploy app for %s to %s on %s" $.Orbit.Values.app.name $deploy.k8s_cluster $deploy.aws_account}}
  - use: {{ $stage }}
    short: {{ $title}}
    run:
      - echo "{{ $title }}"

The alternative is to run Orbit -d but this is very verbose!

I wanted to know if it could be possible:

• either have a -i (like info) flag that would display this information
• or inject an env variable so that the run code can access this information
• or always print this information

Let me know what you think of this...

[Jérôme Vizcaino]

+1 on this!

I would also like to see the following behaviour:

• print task names by default. Add a -q/--quiet to remove those
• Add a -v/--verbose option that would print the actual commands that are being run. This would serve as an alternative to -d which is too verbose for regular end-users.

[Julien Neuhart]

Thank you for the feedbacks! 😄

The first version of Orbit actually printed the current task name. However, I think it should not be the default behavior and we should let the user to decide whether or not he wants to print something.

@octplane does it the way I've imagined it.

Still, it could be interesting to have a -i/--info flag with a info function.

{{- $title := printf "Render and deploy app for %s to %s on %s" $.Orbit.Values.app.name $deploy.k8s_cluster $deploy.aws_account}}
  - use: {{ $stage }}
    short: {{ $title}}
    run:
      {{ if info }}
      - echo "{{ $title }}"
     {{ end }}

Or as asked by @octplane, printing the short attribute when this flag is given to Orbit.