[openstack-dev] [oslo][oslo.config] Reloading configuration of service

mhorban mhorban at mirantis.com
Thu Sep 17 07:14:30 UTC 2015


Hi Josh,

 > Sounds like a useful idea if projects can plug-in themselves into the
 > reloading process. I definitely think there needs to be a way for
 > services to plug-in to this, although I'm not quite sure it will be
 > sufficient at the current time though.
 >
 > An example of why:
 >
 > -
 > 
https://github.com/openstack/cinder/blob/stable/kilo/cinder/volume/__init__.py#L24 

 > (unless this module is purged from python and reloaded it will likely
 > not reload correctly).
 >
 > Likely these can all be easily fixed (I just don't know how many of
 > those exist in the various projects); but I guess we have to start
 > somewhere so getting the underlying code able to be reloaded is a first
 > step of likely many.

Each of openstack component should contain code responsible for 
reloading such objects.
What objects  will be reloaded? It depends of inspire and desire of 
developers/users.
Writing such code is a second step.

Marian



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