As we do this, I'm trying to work out how to admin the Posit Connect / RStudio Connect side of pins.
I can't seem to find out much info about pins inside the Connect admin and user guides. So I'm wondering if anyone on here can assist with:
is there any way to create multiple named boards inside the Posit/RStudio Connect server - or is the server limited to being one big folder?
is there a way to configure our Connect servers to not version pins by default, and to not allow clients to turn versioning on? We're not keen on the clients turning versioning on/off at the board level and at the pin level using parameters - especially with a recent rogue client we found updating a pin version several times an hour
where can we configure the setting for "If your RSC instance allows it, you can share a pin publicly by setting the access type to all" which I've seen on Use RStudio Connect as board — board_rsconnect • pins ? We'd like to disable this public pin setting.
It feels like I might just have missed a documentation page/section somewhere - so please feel free to just link to it with a ReadTheManual comment
Unfortunately the first two items are areas where Connect will need some improvement, I believe.
Your relevant options I am aware of are here:
Jobs.MaxCompleted - a "global," "all-content types" max number of jobs completed (per content item). Unfortunately not granular enough to target just pins
Applications.MostPermissiveAccessType - if you set this to acl, then that should restrict folks allowing to set all applications to "public." Unfortunately, there is also not a "per content type" mechanism for filtering these types of controls
I will pass this feedback upstream! It would definitely be great to have some more granularity / control over pins on Connect!
Just to let you know we've set the Applications.MostPermissiveAccessType (and its friend AdminMostPermissiveAccessType)
I have kept away from the Jobs.MaxCompleted one for now - just doesn't quite "feel right" - so would need to a bit of actual testing on it. My brain is just not sure why a pin is a job... I need to logon and have a sniff around how pins are actually stored on disk I guess
Thanks - will get around to all the settings eventually...
I actually mixed up Jobs.MaxCompleted represents "jobs" (the logs, stdout, stderr stuff).
pins are actually just static "bundles" / ".tar.gz"s, so Applictions.BundleRetentionLimit is actually the setting you want for pins.
However, it will affect "how many old versions of a Shiny app / Flask API / etc." would be retained as well
The other way to handle this is to use the API to create a "worst offenders" report and then use shame as the motivator
We do need to figure out a way to publicize roadmap more. We've had some ruminating internally but no solution yet. Thanks for staying on us there And I'll definitely keep you posted - it's been a long time since I've been across the pond!
Aside - the other thing that is sometimes limited is "Renderings:" output from a rendering process. Applications.RenderingSweepLimit
Drats - I almost asked about the Sweep limits... but thought it'd come across as a stupid question... If only I'd asked, I've have come across as knows-what-hes-talking-about instead!
