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-Nodepool
-========
-
-Nodepool is a service used by the OpenStack CI team to deploy and manage a pool
-of devstack images on a cloud server for use in OpenStack project testing.
-
-Developer setup
-===============
-
-Install dependencies:
-
-sudo apt-get install git mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev g++ python-dev libzmq-dev
-mkdir src
-cd ~/src
-git clone git://git.openstack.org/openstack-infra/config
-git clone git://git.openstack.org/openstack-infra/nodepool
-cd nodepool
-sudo pip install -U -r requirements.txt
-sudo pip install -e .
-
-If you're testing a specific patch that is already in gerrit, you will also
-want to install git-review and apply that patch while in the nodepool
-directory, ie:
-
-git review -x XXXXX
-
-If the cloud being used has no default_floating_pool defined in nova.conf,
-you will need to define a pool name using nodepool.layout to use floating ips.
-
-Set up database:
-
-mysql -u root
-
-mysql> create database nodepool;
-mysql> GRANT ALL ON nodepool.* TO 'nodepool'@'localhost';
-mysql> flush privileges;
-
-Export variable for your ssh key so you can log into the created instances:
-
-export NODEPOOL_SSH_KEY=`cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub`
-
-Start nodepool with a demo config file (copy or edit fake.yaml
-to contain your data):
-
-export STATSD_HOST=127.0.0.1
-export STATSD_PORT=8125
-nodepoold -d -c tools/fake.yaml
-
-All logging ends up in stdout.
-
-Use the following tool to check on progress:
-
-nodepool image-list
-
-After each run (the fake nova provider is only in-memory):
-
-mysql> delete from snapshot_image; delete from node;
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+Nodepool
+========
+
+Nodepool is a service used by the OpenStack CI team to deploy and manage a pool
+of devstack images on a cloud server for use in OpenStack project testing.
+
+Developer setup
+===============
+
+Install dependencies:
+
+sudo apt-get install git mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev g++ python-dev libzmq-dev
+mkdir src
+cd ~/src
+git clone git://git.openstack.org/openstack-infra/config
+git clone git://git.openstack.org/openstack-infra/nodepool
+cd nodepool
+sudo pip install -U -r requirements.txt
+sudo pip install -e .
+
+If you're testing a specific patch that is already in gerrit, you will also
+want to install git-review and apply that patch while in the nodepool
+directory, ie:
+
+git review -x XXXXX
+
+If the cloud being used has no default_floating_pool defined in nova.conf,
+you will need to define a pool name using nodepool.layout to use floating ips.
+
+Set up database:
+
+mysql -u root
+
+mysql> create database nodepool;
+mysql> GRANT ALL ON nodepool.* TO 'nodepool'@'localhost';
+mysql> flush privileges;
+
+Export variable for your ssh key so you can log into the created instances:
+
+export NODEPOOL_SSH_KEY=`cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub`
+
+Start nodepool with a demo config file (copy or edit fake.yaml
+to contain your data):
+
+export STATSD_HOST=127.0.0.1
+export STATSD_PORT=8125
+nodepoold -d -c tools/fake.yaml
+
+All logging ends up in stdout.
+
+Use the following tool to check on progress:
+
+nodepool image-list
+
+After each run (the fake nova provider is only in-memory):
+
+mysql> delete from snapshot_image; delete from node;