openstack-nova update

Alan Pevec apevec at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 17:22:21 UTC 2011


On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> openstack-nova is now set up to use MySQL by default instead of SQLite.
>>>    To help make the setup a bit easier, there is a script that will set
>>> up MySQL for you: openstack-nova-db-setup.
>>
>> Another thought on this - perhaps it could also offer to change the
>> MySQL nova user's password from the default too? And update nova.conf
>> with the new password?
>
> That's a good idea.
>
> I was also thinking about adding more command line options to make sure
> it could be run non-interactively if it were to be used in an automated
> install.

I'm looking to implement this db change for keystone too, so maybe it
would make sense to have generalized db setup script in
openstack-common package?
Mark, you're working on that upstream, right? Would that package be a
right place for such common scripts or is it for Python modules only?

Alan



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