Hi mrmondo, I respect your opinion, but I think this is really a matter of individual design taste. I think that persisting the mutable state in the configurat

Hi mrmondo, I respect your opinion, but I think this is really a matter of individual design taste. I think that persisting the mutable state in the configuration file is a good thing, since actually in the Sentinel case, the initial configuration is the statement of a given state. As the state evolves it is reflected in the configuration. The version of Sentinel provided with 2.8.7 also provides a full API that allows to change the configuration while the system is running, so you can automate everything without even having to touch the configuration file at all if you don't like it.