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On 1/12/2016 3:29 AM, gilles.mocellin at nuagelibre.org wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wonder if there is somewhere some precise information on which
> component a configuration option is for.
> I'll explain that.
>
> I want to separate components on several servers, a controller node, a
> network node, and compute nodes. Classic.
> I have nova-api one one node, nova-compute on another.
> Idem for cinder-api and cinder-volume (I use glusterFS on compute nodes).
> Idem for neutron-server and neutron-plugin-openvswitch-agent.
>
> What I would like is to have the minimum configuration files for each
> component, on each server.
> I know it would not hurt to have more configuration than used, but it
> would help to really understand what is done by each component.
>
> At the moment, I can't find where I have to put quota configuration
> (until_refresh and max_age).
> Is it used by nova-api, nova-scheduler... cinder-api ?
> Or is it used by nova-compute, cinder-volume ?
>
> I would find very clear if each component had it own config file.
> It would also avoid to put some passwords (database acces, keystone...)
> on nodes where it's not used.
>
> On Ubuntu, there's already a some "separation" with two files :
> /etc/nova/nova.conf and /etc/nova/nova-compute.conf.
> (In fact, nova-compute load both files, which can be least clear).
>
> So, is there a documentation where I could see :
> - nova-api, reads theses configuration options
> - nova-compute...
>
>
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Markus Zoeller is working on cleaning this up in Nova in Mitaka, see the 
spec here:

http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/mitaka/approved/centralize-config-options.html

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann