[Openstack-docs] Config Guide inclusions
Summer Long
slong at redhat.com
Fri Aug 9 00:11:45 UTC 2013
No, just what I know from Red Hat. Looks like Tom said that Ubuntu would
have different values, but I don't know what those are. Is there a
Ubuntu contributor here?
cheers, Summer
Summer Long
OpenStack Documentation
Engineering Content Services
Red Hat Asia Pacific
Brisbane, Australia
slong at redhat.com <mailto:slong at redhat.com>
On 08/09/2013 08:59 AM, Nermina Miller wrote:
> No problem, Summer. Would be happy too! Is all of the info included in
> the initial email? Thanks! - Nermina
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Summer Long <slong at redhat.com
> <mailto:slong at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
> Interesting, Anne, that closely matches what I put together for
> the Red Hat general introduction (included in all the guides so
> far). I like the additional 'why cloud' and 'logical architecture'
> sections.
>
> Question, is that only included in the Installation Guide? I'd
> sent our introduction over to Shaun McCance, via Tom, for review
> towards possibly including in all intro-type docs. Obviously, that
> doesn't need to be done if the Getting Started intro can be used
> across other docs.
>
> Nermina, are you ok with coming up with a distribution-dependant
> table, in case that's necessary (per Tom, sounds like it is)?
>
> :>
>
> Summer
>
>
> Summer Long
> OpenStack Documentation
> Engineering Content Services
>
> Red Hat Asia Pacific
> Brisbane, Australia
> slong at redhat.com <mailto:slong at redhat.com>
>
> On 08/09/2013 01:14 AM, Nermina Miller wrote:
>> No problem, then ;)
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Anne Gentle
>> <annegentle at justwriteclick.com
>> <mailto:annegentle at justwriteclick.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Sure, but realize that with git-based work, it merges in, and
>> if it can't resolve the merge, a human makes sure it all
>> works together still. So we don't have to "lock" any given
>> file. Which to me is full of win!
>>
>> Anne
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Nermina Miller
>> <nerminamiller at gmail.com <mailto:nerminamiller at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Anne and Summer,
>>
>> Since I'm working on the rewrite of Getting Started,
>> should we wait till that process is done to make these
>> edits? I have Mirantis SMEs looking at it and I'm
>> updating simultaneously.
>>
>> Thank you both!
>>
>> Nermina
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Anne Gentle
>> <annegentle at justwriteclick.com
>> <mailto:annegentle at justwriteclick.com>> wrote:
>>
>> A while back I fixed this bug:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals/+bug/1160757
>> with this patch:
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/26950/3/doc/src/docbkx/common/getstart.xml
>> Which offered a lot more explanation of services,
>> daemons, and so forth. The file I updated is
>> common/getstart.xml. I think this info can go there.
>> Since it's reused many places, do not use conditional
>> markup in that file.
>>
>> Anne
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Summer Long
>> <slong at redhat.com <mailto:slong at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tom,
>> Yes, I can see your point. Am just thinking about
>> whether folks will find it if they are not in the
>> middle of an OpenStack install?
>>
>> Are all of the values really distribution
>> dependant? If so, and if the installation really
>> is the better place, then putting them into
>> distribution Installation guides probably would
>> work better.
>>
>> Other opinions?
>>
>> cheers, Summer
>>
>> Summer Long
>> OpenStack Documentation
>> Engineering Content Services
>>
>> Red Hat Asia Pacific
>> Brisbane, Australia
>> slong at redhat.com <mailto:slong at redhat.com>
>>
>> On 08/08/2013 09:58 AM, Tom Fifield wrote:
>>> Hmm, nice one!
>>>
>>> My initial impression is that this information is most useful to users
>>> on installation (planning systems), rather than post-install
>>> 'fixing'/configuration.
>>>
>>> It's also raised some interesting questions in my mind about whether the
>>> configuration reference is distribution agnostic - since uid/gids are
>>> different between RHEL and ubuntu if I remember correctly. My feeling is
>>> that to be more low maintenance (which was one of the driving factors in
>>> the creation of the config reference), we probably want it to be "just
>>> about OpenStack", rather than doing conditional formatting for
>>> rhel/ubuntu/suse etc. However, I also have the feeling that we'll end up
>>> with more of these situations and I'll break down :)
>>>
>>> Can we move this discussion to the mailing list?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>> On 08/08/13 07:22, Summer Long wrote:
>>>> Hi Tom,
>>>> I just got a request to put the reserved uids/guids used by OpenStack
>>>> somewhere in the documentation. So that configurers can know what
>>>> products pull in which uid/gids/software, and also in case they are
>>>> assigning uids/gids to other third-party software or systems.
>>>>
>>>> It feels like the Configuration Reference is the right place. Have you
>>>> had any requests for these?
>>>> For example:
>>>>
>>>> keystone:x:163:163:OpenStack Keystone Daemons:/var/lib/keystone:sbin/nologin
>>>> glance:x:161:161:OpenStack Glance Daemons:/var/lib/glance:/sbin/nologin
>>>> cinder:x:165:165:OpenStack Cinder Daemons:/var/lib/cinder:/sbin/nologin
>>>> nova:x:162:162:OpenStack Nova Daemons:/var/lib/nova:/sbin/nologin
>>>>
>>>> Plus neutron, swift, ceilometer, heat?
>>>>
>>>> And if we're including info for third-party glue, then possibly:
>>>>
>>>> mysql:x:27:27:MySQL Server:/var/lib/mysql:/bin/bash
>>>> qpidd:x:498:499:Owner of Qpidd Daemons:/var/lib/qpidd:/sbin/nologin
>>>> nagios:x:496:495::/var/spool/nagios:/sbin/nologin
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>>> thanks, Summer
>>>> --
>>>> Summer Long
>>>> OpenStack Documentation
>>>> Engineering Content Services
>>>>
>>>> Red Hat Asia Pacific
>>>> Brisbane, Australia
>>>> slong at redhat.com <mailto:slong at redhat.com> <mailto:slong at redhat.com> <mailto:slong at redhat.com>
>>
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