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

Nachi Ueno nachi at ntti3.com
Fri Jan 10 20:42:56 UTC 2014


+100 also :)

2014/1/10 Joe Gordon <joe.gordon0 at gmail.com>:
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> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:01 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 16:34 -0800, Joe Gordon wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > > On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 23:56 +0100, Julien Danjou wrote:
>> > > > On Thu, Jan 09 2014, Jay Pipes wrote:
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>> > > > > Hope you don't mind, I'll jump in here :)
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>> > > > > On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 11:08 -0800, Nachi Ueno wrote:
>> > > > >> Hi Jeremy
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>> > > > >> 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?
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>> > > > > It's more of a burden for operators to have to configure OpenStack
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>> > > > > multiple ways.
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>> > > > I also think projects should try to minimize configuration options
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>> > > > their minimum so operators are completely lost. Opening the sample
>> > > > nova.conf and seeing 696 options is not what I would call user
>> > > > friendly.
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>> > There was talk a while back about marking different config options as
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>> > and advanced (or something along those lines) to help make it easier for
>> > operators.
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>> You might be thinking of this session summit I led:
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>>   https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/grizzly-nova-config-options
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>> My thinking was we first move config options into groups to make it
>> easier for operators to make sense of the available options and then we
>> would classify them (as e.g. "tuning", "experimental", "debug") and
>> exclude some classifications from the sample config file.
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>> Sadly, I never even made good progress on "Tedious Task 2 :: Group".
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> That is exactly what I was thinking of.
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>> Mark.
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