[openstack-dev] [Quantum] Agents and configuration files

Gary Kotton gkotton at redhat.com
Tue Jul 24 13:03:05 UTC 2012


Hi,
Can people please raise their concerns about moving all of the 
plugin.ini files into quantum.conf.
This will solve us a number of problems. Please let me know if you have 
any reservations.
Thanks
Gary

On 07/24/2012 09:17 AM, Gary Kotton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> *Background*: The quantum service makes use of the configuration file 
> quantum.conf. In addition to this there is a common configuration file 
> shared between the plugin and the agent (plugin.ini). The 
> aforementioned files are loaded by the common configuration files.
>
> *Current developments*: A number of current developments, for example 
> notifications (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/9835/) and scalable 
> agents (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/9591/) require RPC 
> configurations.
>
> From the discussion last night the community the consensus is to have 
> the common configuration items that may be relevant to one or more 
> agent/plugin in the quantum configuration file. This change will 
> require the agents to also load the quantum.conf configuration files.
>
> *Open issues*:
> 1. I do not think that the common configuration supports mapping of 
> name spaces to configuration files.
> 2. Configuration file loading. With the plugins the configuration 
> files are loaded in two stages. If possible it would be great that the 
> files could be loaded at once - this can be done by listing the 
> plugin/agent ini file(s) in the quantum.conf. When this is loaded then 
> the other files will be loaded.
>
> Please let me know if you have any comments or objections. I would 
> like to move ahead and start to work on this.
>
> Thanks
> Gary
>
>
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