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Automatically generate configuration tables to document OpenStack.

Dependencies: python-git (version: 0.3.2 RC1), oslo.config

Setting up your environment

Note: This tool is best run in a fresh VM environment, as running it requires installing the dependencies of the particular OpenStack product you are working with. Installing all of that on your normal machine could leave you with a bunch of cruft!

First install git, python-git, and python-pip

$ sudo apt-get install git python-git python-pip

then, checkout the repository you are working with:

$ git clone https://github.com/openstack/nova.git

and the tool itself:

$ git clone https://github.com/fifieldt/autogenerate-config-docs.git

Next, install oslo.config

$ sudo pip install oslo.config

and finally, the dependencies for the product you are working with:

$ sudo pip install -r nova/requirements.txt

Now you are ready to use the tool.

Using the tool

This tool is divided into three parts:

Extraction of flags names eg

$ ./autohelp.py --action create -i flagmappings/nova.flagmappings -o names --path /repos/nova
Grouping of flags

This is currently done manually, by using the flag name file and placing a category after a space.

 $ head flagmappings/glance.flagmappings 
 admin\_password registry
 admin\_role api
 admin\_tenant\_name registry
 admin\_user registry
 ...

Creation of docbook-formatted configuration table files

$ ./autohelp.py --action create -i flagmappings/nova.flagmappings -o docbook --path /repos/nova