Autogenerate Telegraph Configs

[codebru]

Investigate ways/benefits to generating telegraf configs

Questions:
Is there a benefit to autogenerating the configs?
How can usernames and passwords be handled?

[lenzai]

multiple config files in a folder could help protect the password ( i.e. we do not commit the password conf file)
https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/docs/CONFIGURATION.md

Also environment variables could work but some argue that it's not suitable for auto restart services.
influxdata/telegraf#3124

[xuyuji9000]

Saw a friend using ansible template compose and injecting secrets into configuration.

coderbunker/prometheus-playground#2

Here has the similar problem need to be solve, Would love to learn.