<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Its only recently that I have started exploring openstack and the first thing that comes to my mind is the nature and amount of configuration required for the various components. <br>
The managed IT Deb packages for Diablo were very helpful in reaching a poc level implementation involving a separate cloud controller, volume and glance with swift and with a compute node. </p>
<p>Are there any plans to simplify the configuration files and develop command line wizards for a better user experience?</p>
<p>I believe that with every release an incrementally better experience will help in greater adoption of the platform. For example I could only get things working on my third trial. That too led to problems due to EC2 not working till a project was added using nova manage. I still remain confused between tenants and projects in Diablo. Logically one customer (tenant) should be able to run multiple projects. So I was a bit surprised at them being treated as equivalent.</p>
<p>First target for simplification could be the various pipeline settings and the nova configuration. I have found these a bit complicated to understand. </p>
<p>I have not started testing Essex yet.</p>
<p>Regards<br>
Aniruddha</p>