[openstack-dev] [neutron] Configuration file generator

Emilien Macchi emilien.macchi at enovance.com
Mon Jul 22 22:55:08 UTC 2013


Also for your information,

I created a bug : https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/1199963
and a first patchset for generating the new configuration file with Oslo
config scripts :
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/36546/

Emilien Macchi
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On 07/22/2013 06:34 PM, Julien Danjou wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've been working on the changes that would need to be done to make the
> default config generator work for Neutron.
>
> However, the current default config generator doesn't support the
> possibility to generate different configuration files (e.g. one per
> service/plugin). I can imagine two options:
>
> a. move every options in oslo.config.cfg.CONF, moving the plugins into
>    their own section rather than in their own file, register all options
>    at module-level, avoiding duplicate options.
>
> b. enhance config.generator to generate a config file from a particular
>    object (not always olso.config.cfg.CONF like it's done currently).
>    That means Neutron should evolve to provide a global CONF object per
>    plugin at least.
>
> Option a. is how all other OpenStack projects¹ are working so far.
> Option b. requires a bit more work on both side.
>
> Is there any particular way you guys see things?
>
>
> ¹  nova, ceilometer and heat at least for now
>
>
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