ConPaaS-team / conpaas

ConPaaS: integrated runtime environment for elastic cloud applications
http://www.conpaas.eu
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Better checks and sanitation of the diverse configuration parameters #20

Open tcrivat opened 10 years ago

tcrivat commented 10 years ago

When installing ConPaaS for the first time, many difficulties are caused by the user entering improper or missing values in the different configuration files. This can be counteracted by a more detailed installation guide. However, I think that a simple script that validates the configurations and suggests the user specific actions in solving the possible problems could be of great use.

Some examples of possible configuration problems that are hard to figure out by the user but can be easily checked by a script:

schevalier commented 10 years ago

checks to be added on cpscheck, cpsconf, cpsadduser scripts as libcloud, python versions, virtualenv checks or some small last-minute fixes/patches : add-uuid-column-to-db.sh