Add module to easily setup and run Sparrow checks about rex-recipes HOT 3 CLOSED

Sounds good. My considerations. I'd rather talk about sparrow checkpoints, not sparrow plugins.
Sparrow checkpoints are abstraction for runnable sparrow test suites , checkpoint consists of 3 components:

• project . Project group together logically related plugins . F.e. project_name = 'system' - system related plugins, project_name = 'webservers' - web servers related plugins. so on
• checkpoint_name - name of check point , pair (project_name, checkpoint_name) should be unique. For example project_name = system, checkpoint name = disk ; project_name = webservers, checkpoint name = nginx. so on
• plugin name - name of sparrow plugin

Available plugins could be found at https://sparrowhub.org/search or by running sparrow plg search command.

So we would rather better have:

rex Misc:Sparrow:run --checkpoints='system.disk,webservers.nginx' # run explicitly these checkpoints  
rex Misc:Sparrow:run --checkpoints='except  system.*' # run all  beside system checkpoints
rex Misc:Sparrow:run --checkpoints='except  system.disk* # run all beside system.disk checkpoint
rex Misc:Sparrow:run --checkpoints='system.* # run all system checkpoints 

This is like suggestion, we need to discuss ...

So, as for mentioned rex tasks:

Misc:Sparrow:setup will

• Install Sparrow ( this is cpan module )

cpanm Sparrow

• Install sparrow plugin(s) , f.e.

   sparrow plg install df-check

• Setup sparrow plguin(s)

Setup sparrow plugin will:

• create a sparrow projects, checkpoint(s) - is abstraction for runnable sparrow test suites , f.e.

     sparrow  project create  system 
     sparrow  check add system disk
     sparrow  check set system disk df-check 

• generate suite.ini file
• bind a checkpoint to a generated suite.ini file , f.e.

     sparrow check load_ini system disk /path/to/suite.ini/file

Some plugins do not require suite.ini files, so last two steps could be skipped.

Misc:Sparrow:check will

• run a sparrow checkpoint(s). F.e.

    sparrow check run disk system 

Sparrow entities to be defined at rex side:

• plugins list:

Available plugins could be found at https://sparrowhub.org/search or by sparrow plg search command. F.e.

plugins_list:
 - df-check
 - nginx-check

• checkpoints list. Should be sparrow checkpoints list. F.e.

 checkpoints: 
 - project: system
   checkname : disk
   plugin: df-check 

 - project: webservers
   checkname : nginx
   plugin: nginx-check 

• checkpoints settings list. Should it be host specific? Need to discuss. Example:

 settings: 
 - project: system
  checkname : disk
  host: foo-bar-baz
  settings: 
    - threshold: 50

Probably ( not sure ) checkpoint settings could be set dynamically in runtime?:

rex Misc:Sparrow:check --checkpoints=system.disk --system.disk.threshold=50

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as for the reference on sparrow checkpoints - https://github.com/melezhik/sparrow#create-checkpoints

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The intiial version is now merged, feel free to take maintainership on the Rex::Misc::Sparrow module, as I originall only wished to provide a starting point for this idea and I think that's done ^^

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