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On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 09:41:16AM +0100, Thomas Herve wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:05 AM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja at fastmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > * How does reloading work (does it)?
> 
> No. There is nothing that we can do in oslo that will make services
> magically reload configuration. It's also unclear to me if that's
> something to do. In a containerized environment, wouldn't it be
> simpler to deploy new services? Otherwise, supporting signal based
> reload as we do today should be trivial.
> 
> > * What's the operational experience (editing a ini file is about the lowest
> > bar we can possible get to, for better and/or worse).
> >
> > * Does this need to be a new oslo.config backend or is it better suited by
> > something like the following (external programs loop)::
> >
> >    etcd_client = make_etcd_client(args)
> >    while True:
> >        has_changed = etcd_client.get_new_config("/blahblah") # or use a
> > watch
> >        if has_changed:
> >           fetch_and_write_ini_file(etcd_client)
> >           trigger_reload()
> >        time.sleep(args.wait)
> 
> That's confd: https://github.com/kelseyhightower/confd/ . Bonus
> points; it supports a ton of other backends. One solution is to
> provide templates and documentation to use confd with OpenStack.
> 
++

Lets not get into the business of writing cfgmgmt tools in openstack, but reuse
what exists today.

oslo.config should just write to etcd, and other tools would be used, confd, to
trigger things.

> -- 
> Thomas
> 
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