[openstack-dev] [heat] [cinder backend options] Propagate Cinder backend config information to Heat
Qiming Teng
tengqim at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Nov 28 13:15:57 UTC 2014
The first thing you may want to check is the Cinder API. If I'm
understanding this correctly, Heat only interact with other OpenStack
services via their APIs. It is not supposed to peek into their
internals.
Regards,
- Qiming
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 06:19:56PM +0530, Pradip Mukhopadhyay wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> Suppose we have a cinder backend in local.conf | cinder.conf as :
>
>
> [myNFSBackend]
> nfs_mount_options = nfsvers=3
> volume_backend_name = myNFSBackend
> volume_driver = cinder.volume.drivers.netapp.common.NetAppDriver
> netapp_server_hostname = IP
> netapp_server_port = 80
> netapp_storage_protocol = nfs
> netapp_storage_family = ontap_cluster
> netapp_login = admin
> netapp_password = password
> netapp_vserver = vserver_name
> nfs_shares_config = /opt/stack/nfs.shares
>
>
> We would like to access some of such cinder backend configuration
> information from Heat. More specifically from custom resource inside the
> Heat (e.g. access the netapp_server_hostname, netapp_login, netapp_password
> etc. when defining a custom resource class extending the base Resource
> class). The purpose is to facilitate some (soap) service call to the
> backend storage from custom resource definitions.
>
>
> What is the best pattern/mechanism available? Any pointers to code/doc will
> be highly appreciated.
>
>
> Does any database table holds the local.conf (or service specific conf)
> information?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Pradip
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