Re: overriding directories from command line

[Ted Zlatanov <tz...@lifelogs.com>]

I created http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-743 as a wish
item to address just includes.  I can implement it for XML but it may be
better to make it a dependency of the YAML work in
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-671.

Ted

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:11:27 -0600 (CST) "Stu Hood" <st...@rackspace.com> wrote: 

SH> I would vote for this one as well, if somebody wants to create the issue.
SH> -----Original Message-----
SH> From: "Ted Zlatanov" <tz...@lifelogs.com>
SH> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 3:01pm
SH> To: cassandra-dev@incubator.apache.org
SH> Subject: Re: overriding directories from command line

SH> On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:39:15 -0800 Anthony Molinaro <an...@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote: 

AM> If you are thinking about config file changes I'd like to request some
AM> sort of inclusion mechanism.   For instance, if you could had 2 keyspaces
AM> which you want to deploy on separate clusters in production but allow
AM> developers to install simultaneously on their development box, it would
AM> be great if you could do this by have 3 files. One of which has settings
AM> specific to the developer box (ie, memory settings), and one for each
AM> keyspace.  Then I could create 5 packages (RPM or deb)

AM> 1. one with the developer box settings which includes both keyspace configs
AM> 2. one with the production box settings for the cluster controlling keyspace1
AM> which includes keyspace1 config.
AM> 3. one with the production box settings for the cluster controlling keyspace2
AM> which includes keyspace2 config.
AM> 4. one with just the keyspace1 config.
AM> 5. one with just the keyspace2 config.

AM> I could do all this with a bunch of preprocessing at package build time,
AM> but that gets a little annoying.  And right now I just have the config
AM> copied and everytime I need to change a CF I need to change it in 3
AM> places (devel, qa, and prod configs).

AM> One great solution would be to support the loading of multiple configs
AM> from a directory.  You already see this a lot, for instance /etc/init.d
AM> or /etc/httpd/conf.d on most unix systems.

SH> This is actually my situation too.  I have to roll out slightly
SH> customized Cassandra instances to several colos and it's unpleasant to
SH> use cfengine or Puppet to edit XML files, so I'd rather have some simple
SH> inclusion and interpolation mechanism.