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Hi Elizabeth,

> We do need to protect the administrator account. This will be a
> password we store in the hiera key/value store and only infra root
> will have access to it by default. As you can see for something line
> Zanata, we also have private data that's pulled in from hiera:
> 
> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/system-config/tree/manifests/site.pp#n1061
> 
> When a patch is up for launching the server itself, I can get this
> password added for you.

many thanks for the advises. A proposal for site.pp can you found here:
http://paste.openstack.org/show/486021/
I think you can generate random passwords and handover to Daisy as 
project coordinator.

>> 3. Do we need to deal with the health check or monitoring of openstack
>> instance ?
> 
> This has not been determined yet.
> 
> We can use the passive monitoring with Cacti
> (http://cacti.openstack.org) that we use for most of our systems, but
> if you want to do a more active health check of this server you'll
> likely need to write or leverage some tooling that's DevStack-specific
> to track whatever you want to track.

thanks, we will think about it.

>> 4. The puppet module has two cron jobs and a list of parameters.
>> I don't know how to configure the parameters.
>> Are there a web UI to configure ?
> 
> I haven't had a close look at the Puppet module yet (I'm traveling
> this week), but you will want to create a custom .pp file in
> system-config under modules/openstack_project/manifests/ with the name
> translations_checksite.pp or similar that has the values we want for
> our own instance. For example, here's the custom .pp file for our
> Zanata configuration:
> 
> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/system-config/tree/modules/openstack_project/manifests/translate.pp

Question was: if you use Puppet Enterprise are configuration options 
like used branch in Zanata are acessable with web UI or how we handle 
this in the future, if we want later change things?

Anyway: the manifest for our puppet module are also ready for review: 
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/276466/
It would be nice, if you have time to take a look.

kind regards

Frank