nova/releasenotes/notes/cell-mapping-formatted-urls-4f5ee779a70960b8.yaml
Dan Smith 50658eee4f Allow templated cell_mapping URLs
The way we store DB and MQ URLs in the API database causes issues for
some deployments (and deployment tools) which want to use per-host
credentials or remote hostnames. Since all the URLs loaded from the
database are the same on all systems, this becomes very difficult and
some have even resorted to using client-based aliasing underneath Nova
and just providing URLs that reference those aliases.

This makes our CellMapping object load the URLs out of the database,
and apply variable substitution from the CONF-resident base URLs
for any fields provided. Such functionality will let operators
define per-host credentials in [database]/connection, for example,
and have those applied to the database_connection URLs loaded from
CellMapping records.

Change-Id: Iab296c27bcd56162e2efca5fb232cae0aea1160e
2018-06-27 12:54:44 -07:00

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---
features:
- |
The URLs in cell mapping records may now include variables that are filled
from the corresponding default URL specified in the host's configuration
file. This allows per-host credentials, as well as other values to be set
in the config file which will affect the URL of a cell, as calculated when
loading the record. For ``database_connection``, the ``[database]/connection``
URL is used as the base. For ``transport_url``, the ``[DEFAULT]/transport_url``
is used. For more information, see the cells configuration docs:
https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/user/cells.html