Excerpts from Jay Pipes's message of 2017-02-06 16:23:51 -0500: > On 02/06/2017 04:09 PM, Aimee Ukasick wrote: > > Thanks, Clint, for your quick response. Questions inline. > > On 02/06/2017 01:32 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: > >> Excerpts from Aimee Ukasick's message of 2017-02-06 12:57:28 -0600: > >>> Hi everyone - from the Congress standalone installation guide > >>> (http://docs.openstack.org/developer/congress/README.html#installing-congress): > >>> > >>> --- > >>> To use RabbitMQ with Congress, set the transport_url in the “From > >>> oslo.messaging” section according to your setup: > >>> transport_url = rabbit://$RABBIT_USERID:$RABBIT_PASSWORD@$RABBIT_HOST:5672 > >>> --- > >>> > >>> Is there a CLI or API call to determine the Rabbit userID, password, > >>> host, and port from a running OpenStack installation? My colleague and I > >>> are working on standalone Congress installation scripts (bash), and we > >>> are trying to figure how to dynamically determine the RABBIT_USERID, > >>> RABBIT_PASSWORD, RABBIT_HOST, and port. We really don't want to resort > >>> to pulling the transport URL out of another service's conf file > >>> (nova.conf, heat.conf, keystone.conf, etc). > >>> > >>> There is a rabbitmqctl > >>> https://www.rabbitmq.com/man/rabbitmqctl.1.man.html but that doesn't > >>> have the commands for finding userID, password, host, and port. > > > >> > >> Those conf files get it from the same place you should: Config > >> management. You need to inject it into your bash however you inject > >> details of the environment into anything else. > >> > > > > I'm relatively new to OpenStack, so please pardon my ignorance. What do > > you mean by config management? We don't have any details about how > > OpenStack has been installed - it may have been installed by an OPNFV > > Installer, an OpenStack installer, or some other way. We are looking for > > an installer-agnostic means of determining: 1) where Rabbit is installed > > and running as a service (rabbit_host); and 2) how to obtain the rabbit > > UserID and password so we can configure the transport_url. > > > > Also, my colleague and I can't assume that Congress or Tacker or another > > OpenStack service is going to be installed on the Controller node. What > > if we are installing the OpenStack service in a Docker container that's > > not on the Controller? We aren't OpenStack experts, so any guidance is > > greatly appreciated. > > Hi Aimee, > > I think what Clint is saying is that storing and retrieving the > configuration information for things like rabbitmq (or databases and > things like that) is not in the purview of OpenStack itself, but rather > is the responsibility of the tooling that you used to deploy OpenStack > (and other applications) in your environment. > > Whether it's Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, Ansible, or any other > configuration management tool, each one generally has one or more > methods to grab and store sensitive configuration information. Same for > things like Kubernetes and Terraform. Each uses different ways of > storing and distributing that information. > > Depending on how your infrastructure was deployed, you will need to use > the method appropriate to that configuration management system.
^^ yeah, what Jay said. __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev