Resource agents assume a single config file

[Thomas Bechtold]

Most of the resource agents use "--config-file" which resets the default config-files from oslo.config. So you can not use service specific config files (eg /etc/nova/nova-api.conf ) for the services.
Best would be to start the services without any --config-file/--config-dir switch given and just rely on the defaults from oslo.config .

[Thomas Bechtold (toabctl)]

Note: --config-dir is not used by any resource agent so with that you could use multiple config snippets. So maybe this bug is invalid but I still feel it would be an improvement to not give any --config-* options to the service during startup.

[Adam Spiers (adam.spiers)]

@toabctl You are right - this is one of the reasons that I wanted to change the RAs to wrap around systemd services. Then the decision about which config files/dirs to use would be delegated to each distro, and the RAs wouldn't need any knowledge about that. So it would remove duplicated logic, and the RAs could focus on their main value add, which is service-level monitoring. It would be great if you could read this whole thread and let me know if you have any thoughts on it:

http://lists.clusterlabs.org/pipermail/developers/2016-November/000383.html