Just thinking aloud - would it make sense to have a meta-configuration file; this file can hold the names of the configuration files to load. This would allow being a little more granular than picking up everything from a directory (if we had to go the route of using a directory name).
~Sumit. On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 23:45 +0400, Eugene Nikanorov wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> >> Recently we had a discussion with Sean Dague on the matter. >> Currently Neutron server has a number of configuration files used for >> different purposes: >> - neutron.conf - main configuration parameters, plugins, db and mq >> connections >> - plugin.ini - plugin-specific networking settings >> - conf files for ml2 mechanisms drivers (AFAIK to be able to use >> several mechanism drivers we need to pass all of these conf files to >> neutron server) >> - services.conf - recently introduced conf-file to gather >> vendor-specific parameters for advanced services drivers. >> Particularly, services.conf was introduced to avoid polluting >> 'generic' neutron.conf with vendor parameters and sections. >> >> >> The discussion with Sean was about whether to add services.conf to >> neutron-server launching command in devstack >> (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/64377/ ). services.conf would be 3rd >> config file that is passed to neutron-server along with neutron.conf >> and plugin.ini. >> >> >> Sean has an argument that providing many conf files in a command line >> is not a good practice, suggesting setting up configuration directory >> instead. There is no such capability in neutron right now so I'd like >> to hear opinions on this before putting more efforts in resolving this >> in with other approach than used in the patch on review. > > I'd say just put the additional conf file on the command line for now. > Adding in support to oslo.cfg for a config directory can come later. > > Just my 2 cents, > -jay > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev