[openstack-dev] Less option (was: [oslo.config] Centralized config management)

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Thu Jan 9 23:01:39 UTC 2014


On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 23:56 +0100, Julien Danjou wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09 2014, Jay Pipes wrote:
> 
> > Hope you don't mind, I'll jump in here :)
> >
> > On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 11:08 -0800, Nachi Ueno wrote:
> >> Hi Jeremy
> >> 
> >> Don't you think it is burden for operators if we should choose correct
> >> combination of config for multiple nodes even if we have chef and
> >> puppet?
> >
> > It's more of a burden for operators to have to configure OpenStack in
> > multiple ways.
> 
> I also think projects should try to minimize configuration options at
> their minimum so operators are completely lost. Opening the sample
> nova.conf and seeing 696 options is not what I would call user friendly.
> 
> And also having working default. I know it's hard, but we should really
> try to think about that sometimes.

+100 :)

-jay




More information about the OpenStack-dev mailing list