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

Joe Gordon joe.gordon0 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 10 00:34:06 UTC 2014


On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
>


There was talk a while back about marking different config options as basic
and advanced (or something along those lines) to help make it easier for
operators.


> > And also having working default. I know it's hard, but we should really
> > try to think about that sometimes.
>
> +100 :)
>
> -jay
>
>
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