[devstack] [trove] Enabling other datastores, plugin variable design less than tidy
Mark Kirkwood
mark.kirkwood at catalyst.net.nz
Wed Jul 17 09:08:28 UTC 2019
Sure, will do.
On 17/07/19 6:35 PM, Lingxian Kong wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> I agree with all your suggestions, do you mind proposing a patch to
> fix that?
>
> Best regards,
> Lingxian Kong
> Catalyst Cloud
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 11:26 AM Mark Kirkwood
> <mark.kirkwood at catalyst.net.nz <mailto:mark.kirkwood at catalyst.net.nz>>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm doing some work with the Trove Postgres datastore. So the first
> thing I did was attempt to get Devstack to set up a stack with
> Postgres
> instead of Mysql.
>
> Reading the docs, it seemed that all I needed to do was this:
>
> $ cat local.conf
>
> [[local|localrc]]
> ADMIN_PASSWORD=password
> DATABASE_PASSWORD=$ADMIN_PASSWORD
> RABBIT_PASSWORD=$ADMIN_PASSWORD
> SERVICE_PASSWORD=$ADMIN_PASSWORD
> TROVE_DATASTORE_TYPE=postgresql
> TROVE_DATASTORE_VERSION=9.6
> TROVE_DATASTORE_PACKAGE=postgresql-9.6
> enable_plugin trove https://opendev.org/openstack/trove
>
> Wrong! After watching the plugin try to build a Mysql guest image of
> version 9.6 (!), I realized that more reading of the plugin source
> was
> required. So iteration 2 (or maybe it was 3...lol), of my
> local.conf is:
>
> [[local|localrc]]
> ADMIN_PASSWORD=password
> DATABASE_PASSWORD=$ADMIN_PASSWORD
> RABBIT_PASSWORD=$ADMIN_PASSWORD
> SERVICE_PASSWORD=$ADMIN_PASSWORD
> TROVE_DATASTORE_TYPE=postgresql
> TROVE_DATASTORE_VERSION=9.6
> TROVE_DATASTORE_PACKAGE=postgresql-9.6
> SERVICE_TYPE=$TROVE_DATASTORE_TYPE
> DATASTORE_VERSION=$TROVE_DATASTORE_VERSION
> VM=/opt/stack/images/ubuntu_postgresql/ubuntu_postgresql
> enable_plugin trove https://opendev.org/openstack/trove
>
> This works. However, it seems like those last 3 variable
> substitutions
> should not be required. i.e:
>
> - SERVICE_TYPE should not exist (we should use TROVE_DATASTORE_TYPE)
>
> - DATASTORE_VERSION should not exist (we should use
> TROVE_DATASTORE_VERSION)
>
> - VM should be constructed out of DISTRO and TROVE_DATASTORE_TYPE
>
> Thoughts?
>
> regards
>
> Mark
>
>
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