On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Dean Troyer <dtro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> DevStack has long had a config setting in localrc called EXTRA_OPTS that > allowed arbitrary settings to be added to /etc/nova/nova.conf [DEFAULT] > section. Additional files and sections have recently been implemented with > a similar scheme. I don't think this scales well as at a minimum every > config file and section needs to be individually handled. > > I'd like to get some feedback on the following two proposals, or hear > other ideas on how to generalize solving the problem of setting arbitrary > configuration values. > > > a) Create conf.d/*.conf files as needed and process each file present into > a corresponding config file. These files would not be supplied by DevStack > but created and maintained locally. > > Example: conf.d/etc/nova/nova.conf: > [DEFAULT] > use_syslog = True > > [osapi_v3] > enabled = False > > > b) Create a single service.local.conf file for each project (Nova, Cinder, > etc) that contains a list of settings to be applied to the config files for > that service. > > Example: nova.local.conf: > # conf file names are parsed out of the section name below between '[' and > the first ':' > [/etc/nova/nova.conf:DEFAULT] > use_syslog = True > > [/etc/nova/nova.conf:osapi_v3] > enabled = False > > > Both cases need to be able to specify the destination config file and > section in addition to the attribute name and value. > > Thoughts? > dt > > [Prompted by review https://review.openstack.org/44266] > > -- > > Dean Troyer > dtro...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > +1 for not dumping in lib/xxx Option 'a' seems like a bit easier to manage in terms of number of files etc but I wouldn't have a strong preference between the two options presented.
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