https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/chromeos/for-team-members/infrastructure/chromeos-admin/devserver-management


The config for devserver related operations has two fields. DevserverPushTask uses one of these configs, and doesn't respect the other one at all.
This is very confusing.

Today I was provisioning a new Devserver. The provision (on attempt 2) failed because devserver had already been partly provisioned, and the script didn't like that (upstart job devserver already running...), so, I said, let's treat this like we're updating the devserver, so I used the DevserverPushTask.

But, it ignored the host_server config option, and happily went about updating all the devservers out there....


(1) let's respect that config option. Respecting only half of a config file is dangerous.
(2) If the field is missing / value is empty, we can take that to mean update all (very useful!), but then, let's prompt the user before rebuilding the world.