acl bootstrap -json

[tomlankhorst]

Proposal

Add -json formatting to acl bootstrap

Analogous to consul acl bootstrap -format=json.

Use-cases

Easy automatic deployment of ACL in new Nomad clusters

BOOTSTRAP_TOKEN=$(nomad acl bootstrap -json | jq -r '.SecretID')

Attempted Solutions

Parse the human-readable output, but this is not stable or elegant.

BOOTSTRAP_TOKEN=$(nomad acl bootstrap | awk '/Secret/ {print $4}')

[mikenomitch]

Hey @tomlankhorst, this definitely seems like a good idea, especially since it is in Consul as well.

Unfortunately, it isn't super high priority for the team, so I worry that the issue might sit here un-done for a while (even though its a valid request).

Would you be open to opening a PR for this?

It seems like an ideal community PR since there is pretty clear success criteria, no coupling with the rest of the codebase, and the Consul code could be used for inspiration.

[jrasell]

This has now been resolved by #11411 and will be available within the Nomad 1.2.0 release.

[tomlankhorst]

Thanks a lot!

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