topic Re: Does Monaco support loops for account level management in Dynatrace API

Does Monaco support loops for account level management?

kumaravel — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:51:11 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to manage the users, groups and policies via Monaco. The numbers of groups to be managed via SAML is large with some minor differnces.

So is there a way to use the go templating or some other way to configure the groups in Monaco with some loop iteration?

Re: Does Monaco support loops for account level management

AntonPineiro — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 08:58:53 GMT

Hi,

You can find here Monaco account commands.

Best regards

Re: Does Monaco support loops for account level management

kumaravel — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:10:59 GMT

Hello @AntonPineiro ,
I have seen the mentioned documentation, but I wanted to check for templating options.
Example, - Configure 10 SAML groups with the same default policy.
In this case, I have to add 10 items under the groups. I was looking for an option similar to environment settings where the json file can have templating to perform loops and the yaml can be configured with parameters.

Re: Does Monaco support loops for account level management?

mark_bley — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:16:22 GMT

Not entirely sure of the use case you are describing it sounds like you could reuse the 1 template for all the groups.

But still you can use loops in monaco templating, here is a sample to such configuration https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/deliver/configuration-as-code/monaco/guides/configuration-as-code-advanced-use-case

Re: Does Monaco support loops for account level management?

kumaravel — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:21:15 GMT

I have tried the Monaco templating but that works for the json template file for other configuration. But the account configuration are done directly in the yaml config file. Is there some example which could be used as a reference?

Re: Does Monaco support loops for account level management?

mark_bley — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:28:13 GMT

My bad forgot about the templating in regards to the account configuration, here you have a sample script I have used before to create such entries.

#!/bin/bash entries=( "the_innovators" "creative_collective" "the_dream_team" "visionary_voices" "the_trailblazers" "unity_squad" "the_think_tank" "synergy_circle" "the_pioneers" "dynamic_alliance" ) for entry in "${entries[@]}"; do cat <<EOL - name: $entry id: $entry description: This is my group account: permissions: - account-viewer policies: - Environment role - Access environment EOL done

Re: Does Monaco support loops for account level management?

kumaravel — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:36:48 GMT

Thanks @mark_bley for sharing the sample script.

So we need to create the yaml using the script outside Monaco and is not possible directly like in templating option right?

Re: Does Monaco support loops for account level management?

mark_bley — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:16:14 GMT

Yes indeed, that would be an option, afaik for now there is no way to templatize in a large scale account management configurations.