Bug 1243188 – [RFE] [Undercloud] Hard coded paths to undercloud.conf and undercloud-passwords.conf

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Bug 1243188 - [RFE] [Undercloud] Hard coded paths to undercloud.conf and undercloud-passwords.conf

Summary:	[RFE] [Undercloud] Hard coded paths to undercloud.conf and undercloud-passwor...

Status:	NEW

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Product:	Red Hat OpenStack
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	instack-undercloud (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0 (Kilo)
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

Priority	medium Severity unspecified
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Assigned To:	James Slagle
QA Contact:	Shai Revivo
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Keywords:	FutureFeature, Triaged

Duplicates:	1235481 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2015-07-14 21:00 EDT by Graeme Gillies
Modified:	2018-10-27 22:14 EDT (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Doc Type:	Known Issue
Doc Text:	The Undercloud installer uses the following hardcoded file paths: * undercloud.conf is hardcoded to ~/undercloud.conf * instack.answers is hardcoded to ~/instack.answers * tripleo-undercloud-passwords is hardcoded to ~/tripleo-undercloud-passwords * install-undercloud.log is hardcoded to ~/.instack/install-undercloud.log These files must exist or the Undercloud installer will fail.
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Description Graeme Gillies 2015-07-14 21:00:10 EDT

Hi,

Looking at the code for instack_undercloud we see

CONF_PATH = os.path.expanduser('~/undercloud.conf')
# NOTE(bnemec): Deprecated
ANSWERS_PATH = os.path.expanduser('~/instack.answers')
PASSWORD_PATH = os.path.expanduser('~/undercloud-passwords.conf')
LOG_FILE = os.path.expanduser('~/.instack/install-undercloud.log')


These paths are all hard coded to users home directory (and even worse, relying on shell expansion).

Can we change it so the default is to look for undercloud.conf in the current working directory, before looking in home directory? Then also have a commmand line switch (also exposed through UCLI) to set custom locations for undercloud.conf and undercloud-passwords.conf? instack.answers isn't used so we can ignore that, and logfiles might be good to go to consistent location (though they could also go to current working dir as well)

Regards,

Graeme

Comment 5 Mike Burns 2016-04-07 16:43:53 EDT

This bug did not make the OSP 8.0 release.  It is being deferred to OSP 10.

Comment 8 Alex Schultz 2017-02-08 13:49:21 EST

*** Bug 1235481 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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