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Steven Hardy <shardy at redhat.com> wrote on 06/02/2014 04:19:45 PM:

> From: Steven Hardy <shardy at redhat.com>
> To: Mike Spreitzer/Watson/IBM at IBMUS, 
> Cc: "openstack at lists.openstack.org" <openstack at lists.openstack.org>
> Date: 06/02/2014 04:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] How to reference one template from another
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 03:13:07PM -0400, Mike Spreitzer wrote:
> >    In a file directory I have Heat Orchestration Template A.yaml, 
which
> >    includes a resource named N of type AWS::CloudFormation::Stack,for 
which
> >    I want to use the Heat Orchestration Template in file B.yaml (in 
the same
> >    directory).  What do I write in the properties of N, and in the 
`heat
> >    stack-create` command line, to make this work?
> 
> This is one of the drawbacks of the AWS-compatible interface to nested
> stacks, it requires a URL not a local file, so basically you can't.
> 
> I would reccomend using one of the native interfaces to nested stacks
> instead:
> 
> 1. untyped nested stack
> 
> resources:
>   instance:
>     type: b.yaml
>     properties:
>         <properties are the parameters defined in b.yaml
> 

Thanks, that's a great answer --- simple and direct.  Now that you mention 
it, I think I have heard it mentioned before.  But I do not see it 
documented in http://docs.openstack.org/developer/heat/template_guide/ --- 
am I missing something?

Thanks,
Mike
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