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We should add a section to our docs that details the config option names,
their descriptions, and which ones are required.  We should backport that
to mitaka and maybe liberty.

Tim

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 12:49 AM Masahito MUROI <
muroi.masahito at lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:

> Hi Bryan,
>
>
> On 2016/05/28 2:52, Bryan Sullivan wrote:
> > Masahito,
> >
> > Sorry, I'm not quite clear on the guidance. Sounds like you're saying
> > all options will be defaulted by Oslo.config if not set in the
> > congress.conf file. That's OK, if I understood.
> you're right.
>
> >
> > It's clear to me that some will be deployment-specific.
> >
> > But what I am asking is where is the spec for:
> > - what congress.conf fields are supported i.e. defined for possible
> > setting in a release
> Your generated congress.conf has a list of all supported config fields.
>
> > - which fields are mandatory to be set (or Congress will simply not work)
> > - which fields are not mandatory, but must be set for some specific
> > purpose, which right now is unclear
> Without deployment-specific configs, IIRC what you need to change from
> default only is "drivers" fields to run Congress with default setting.
>
> >
> > I'm hoping the answer isn't "go look at the code"! That won't work for
> > end-users, who are looking to use Congress but not decipher the
> > meaning/importance of specific fields from the code.
> I guess your generated config has the purpose of each config fields.
>
> If you expect the spec means documents like [1], unfortunately Congress
> doesn't have these kind of document now.
>
> [1] http://docs.openstack.org/mitaka/config-reference/
>
> best regards,
> Masahito
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bryan Sullivan
> >
> >> From: muroi.masahito at lab.ntt.co.jp
> >> Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 15:40:31 +0900
> >> To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
> >> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [congress] Spec for congress.conf
> >>
> >> Hi Bryan,
> >>
> >> Oslo.config that Congress uses to manage config sets each fields to
> >> default value if you don't specify your configured values in
> >> congress.conf. In that meaning, all config is option/required.
> >>
> >> In my experience, config values differing from each deployment, like ip
> >> address and so on, have to be configured, but others might be configured
> >> when you want Congress to run with different behaviors.
> >>
> >> best regard,
> >> Masahito
> >>
> >> On 2016/05/27 3:36, SULLIVAN, BRYAN L wrote:
> >> > Hi Congress team,
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Quick question for anyone. Is there a spec for fields in congress.conf
> >> > file? As of Liberty this has to be tox-generated but I need to know
> >> > which conf values are required vs optional. The generated sample
> output
> >> > doesn't clarify that. This is for the Puppet Module and JuJu Charm I
> am
> >> > developing with the help of RedHat and Canonical in OPNFV. I should
> have
> >> > Congress installed by default (for the RDO and JuJu installers) in the
> >> > OPNFV Colorado release in the next couple of weeks, and the
> >> > congress.conf file settings are an open question. The Puppet module
> will
> >> > also be used to create a Fuel plugin for installation.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> >
> >> > Bryan Sullivan | AT&T
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >
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