openstack-nova update

[Russell Bryant]

On 11/30/2011 12:35 PM, Robert Kukura wrote:
> On 11/30/2011 12:22 PM, Alan Pevec wrote:
>> 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?
>
> The quantum plugins use MySQL and would probably make use of this as
> well. For essex, I expect each plugin to be a separate openstack-quantum
> sub-package, or more likely a pair of them in order to keep the
> config/dbsetup/etc stuff separate from the python modules.

Combining all of these into one script seems like a fine idea, but I 
think it would make sense to make it optional which component(s) it is 
configuring the database for.

I also considered whether such a script belonged upstream or not.  Right 
now it's doing some Fedora specific stuff though, like offering to 
install mysql-server for you if it's not already installed.  It could 
eventually be made more generic, but that takes time and effort.  :-)

-- 
Russell Bryant