Story #3943
Updated by bmbouter about 6 years ago
h2. Problem Statement
While trying to get Pulp3 running on Openshift I ran into an issue where I needed to set a setting in the settings.yaml file from an environment variable. For example the IP of the postgresql instance is only known to openshift and available via an enviornment variable.
This is a blocker on deploying Pulp3 into Openshift.
h2. Solution
Make our settings file a python module instead with the config available at as a module attribute named 'PULP_CONFIG', e.g.
<pre>
$ cat settings.py
# get lots of data from ENVIRONMENT variables
PULP_CONFIG = {} # This would be the toplevel dictionary that would overwrite _DEFAULT_PULP_SETTINGS
# _DEFAULT_PULP_SETTINGS is here: https://github.com/pulp/pulp/blob/master/pulpcore/pulpcore/app/settings.py#L163
</pre>
h4. How will the conf file be imported?
Same way as today, first an environment variable is checked which contains a full path to the python module. If that environment variable isn't set it defaults to look to /etc/pulp/settings.py
The only change is /etc/pulp/server.yaml to /etc/pulp/settings.py as the default location accessed.
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