Stephen Finucane b5edc294a1 docs: Add man pages for 'nova-policy'

I don't actually grok what this does that 'oslopolicy-checker' couldn't
do, so perhaps we can deprecate this in the future. For now though,
simply document the thing. While we're here, we make some additional
related changes:

- Remove references to the 'policy.yaml' file for services that don't
  use policy (i.e. everything except the API services and, due to a bug,
  the nova-compute service).
- Update remaining references to the 'policy.yaml' file to include the
  'policy.d/' directory
- Update the help text for the '--api-name' and '--target' options of
  the 'nova-policy policy check' command to correct tense and better
  explain their purpose.

Also, yes, 'nova-policy policy check' is dumb. Don't blame me :)

Change-Id: I913b0de9ec40a615da7bf9981852edef4a88fecb
Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane <stephenfin@redhat.com>
Related-bug: #1675486

2021-04-19 10:47:17 +01:00

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nova-api-metadata

Synopsis

nova-api-metadata [<options>...]

Description

nova-api-metadata is a server daemon that serves the Nova Metadata API. This daemon routes database requests via the nova-conductor service, so there are some considerations about using this in a multi-cell layout <cells-v2-layout-metadata-api>.

Options

General options

Debugger options

Files

/etc/nova/nova.conf
/etc/nova/api-paste.ini
/etc/nova/policy.yaml
/etc/nova/policy.d/
/etc/nova/rootwrap.conf
/etc/nova/rootwrap.d/

Bugs

Nova bugs are managed at Launchpad

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