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Do not re-install splunk when restarting the container

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ansible, docker

Research direction

The issue identifies the container startup path and Ansible playbook as the relevant entry points; begin by tracing how startup decides to run the playbook on each launch. Test a fresh container and then a stop/start cycle, and consider the work complete when an installed instance starts without reinstalling while a fresh instance still performs the installation.

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Description

Is there an option to prevent the container from re-running the ansible playbook that reinstalls everything when the container starts for the second time?

Context: We use https://github.com/splunk/contentctl to do detection engineering in splunk, and we test the rules locally on our machine, and we spin up a splunk instance which takes a little less than 20 minutes to fully install everything needed. Once installed, we don't need to re-install everything to test a new set of rules. But every time we shut down the container, we need to wait 20 minutes just to re-install everything for no benefit

Dominant language
Python
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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