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Does anyone have a flowchart of the cloud build/configure process including interactions between the various components/stages of TripleO and Heat?

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Collins [mailto:robertc at robertcollins.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 2:29 PM
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] config options, defaults, oh my!

On 10 April 2014 08:33, Clint Byrum <clint at fewbar.com> wrote:

>
> This is exactly what we're doing. We're just suggesting exposing 
> variations in the Heat templates, rather than in the elements. It is 
> worth noting that Heat has grown the ability to grab a local file and 
> inject it into your template at runtime. I think it would actually 
> make sense to have os-apply-config enhanced to be able to override 
> whole template files based on something like this:
>
>     resources:
>       server1:
>         metadata:
>           template_overrides:
>             "/etc/nova/nova.conf":
>               get_file [ "my_special_nova.conf.template" ]
>
> In that, we achieve what you want, but we can do so without rebuilding 
> the whole image.

This makes me a little nervous: its much easier to break os-collect-config by forcing os-apply-config to break hard this way, than through bad metadata. I think I'm ok with the sentiment, but nervous about impl.

-Rob


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Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
Distinguished Technologist
HP Converged Cloud

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