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Summary

Moved over from coreos/butane#729
at @yasminvalim's suggestion, now that Butane development lives here.

butane/docs/examples.md showed contents but never append or overwrite,
so the difference between the three had to be inferred from the spec. This adds
three examples:

  • appending a sudoers rule to the shipped /etc/sudoers, with the safe default
    overwrite: false
  • the equivalent /etc/sudoers.d/ drop-in, which is usually preferable since it
    survives updates to the shipped file
  • replacing a filesystem node with overwrite: true and ordinary contents

The sudoers examples deliberately allow a single command with exact arguments,
with a note against granting unrestricted passwordless access to shells, package
managers, or container runtimes.

Testing

  • each of the three new blocks passes butane --check --strict, using a
    butane binary built from this tree
  • ./test — Success, exit 0

One thing worth flagging: ./test here does not validate <!-- butane-config -->
blocks under butane/docs/. The docs validator only walks docs/ looking for
<!-- ignition --> markers, so the Butane YAML in these docs is currently
unchecked — Butane's own ./test validated it before the merge. I checked these
blocks by hand. Glad to open a separate issue or PR to restore that coverage if
you'd like it.

Fixes #2270.

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The documentation adds examples for appending sudoers rules and overwriting an existing filesystem node. The release notes record the file behavior documentation update.

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File behavior documentation

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Document append and overwrite behavior
butane/docs/examples.md, docs/release-notes.md
The examples show append with overwrite: false for sudoers files and overwrite: true for replacing /etc/example.conf. The release notes record these examples.

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In `@butane/docs/examples.md`:
- Line 152: Update the documentation example to clarify that contents with
overwrite: false does not replace a pre-existing filesystem node; instruct
readers to set overwrite: true when contents must replace the existing node,
while preserving the distinction between complete-file contents and append
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Comment thread butane/docs/examples.md Outdated
The examples showed ordinary contents but never append or overwrite, so
the difference between the three had to be inferred from the spec.

Add an append example targeting the shipped /etc/sudoers with the safe
default overwrite: false, the equivalent /etc/sudoers.d/ drop-in, and an
overwrite: true example that replaces an existing filesystem node.

Fixes coreos#2270

Signed-off-by: Jason Colapietro <jasoncola1@gmail.com>
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JasonColapietro force-pushed the docs/butane-file-append-overwrite-examples branch from fa8c2d2 to ae150c6 Compare August 21, 2026 21:52
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