Action definition

An action in Masson is the basic unit of work. It extends an Nikita actions with additionnal Masson-specific properties.

Common Nikita action properties include:

actions.<action>.metadata
Properties available to all actions such as disabled or relax.
actions.<action>.config
Properties specific to an action
actions.<action>.module
Module path of the action to execute.

Masson add additionnal properties.

actions.<action>.dependencies Actions for which the current action depends on.
actions.<action>.masson Properties used by Masson
- actions.<action>.masson.namespace Array path of the action.
- actions.<action>.masson.slug
  String representation of the path
actions.<action>.nodes Array of nodes where an action is executed, either locally or on one or multiple SSH nodes.

Dependencies are defined as an object whose keys identify the dependency and whose value defined the dependency properties.

actions.<action>.dependencies.required
actions.<action>.dependencies.unique
actions.<action>.dependencies.config