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[Armando Migliaccio <Armando.Migliaccio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think the root of my confusion came from the fact that I was configuring nova-api using --flagfile=nova-api.conf and nova-api.conf contained the list of flags for the node. This is also the reason why I filed a bug to suggest that nova-api.conf is not hardcoded in bin/nova-api

From: openstack-bounces+armando.migliaccio=eu.citrix.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:openstack-bounces+armando.migliaccio=eu.citrix.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andy Smith
Sent: 19 January 2011 19:03
To: Jay Pipes
Cc: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Openstack] new config file for nova-api


On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
If more documentation enables deployers to properly deploy Nova, it's
in scope. At least, that's my opinion.

In scope for documentation, I meant that flags and paste.deploy don't configure the same types of things.

--andy


-jay

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Andy Smith <andyster@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:andyster@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> My understanding is that the paste.deploy config is unrelated to the flags
> system and is rather separate in scope.
>
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Armando Migliaccio
>> <Armando.Migliaccio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Armando.Migliaccio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> > I have noticed that recently a new way of configuring nova-api has been
>> > introduced. It seems that the old gflags style has been replaced in
>> > favour
>> > of paste.deploy style.
>> >
>> > I am trying to find information about this transition, and how old
>> > config
>> > files can be translated to new ones. Do we just past the flags under the
>> > [DEFAULT] section? I am also wondering if this is going to be done for
>> > other
>> > services other than nova-api.
>> >
>> > This blueprint does not seem to have a lot of information.
>>
>> Hey Todd and Anne,
>>
>> Think we can add a bit of documentation about this?  Armando, can you
>> file a bug so that we can track the documentation needs?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> jay
>>
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