wafflehaus 0.3.0dev

A collection of middleware for openstack

Wafflehaus is a collection of WSGI middleware for OpenStack that adds functionality with zero impact to code.

Each middleware is lovingly called a waffle.

Cloud providers of all sizes have problems dealing with business-requirements of their cloud and diverging from upstream. By putting business logic into middleware providers can create special cases without changing upstream code.

Not diverging from upstream is wonderful because:

• You do not need to handle merge conflicts

• The review process for wafflehaus is shorter especially if you fork it

• Although your requirement may not benefit OpenStack as a whole, it still fits in Wafflehaus

Beyond the above benefits, other benefits of using wafflehaus are:

• You gain access to plenty of predefined waffles that can usually be configured to support your special case

• All of the waffles in wafflehaus are designed to be configured in the api-paste.ini file and thus can be distributed however you wish (puppet, chef, ansible)

Finally, although Wafflehaus was intended to work with OpenStack, it is possible to use it in front of any WSGI compliant service.

Getting Help

The official channel for wafflehaus support in on freenode in #wafflehaus.

Using Wafflehaus

Using wafflehaus is simple! A stable version is available on pypi but you can always install wafflehaus using pip+git. Modify your api-paste.ini to include your waffle of choice and add the waffle where you wish in the composite that defines your app.

Example using dns_filter:

[composite:neutronapi_v2_0]
use = call:neutron.auth:pipeline_factory
noauth = dns_filter request_id catch_errors extensions neutronapiapp_v2_0
keystone = dns_filter request_id catch_errors authtoken keystonecontext
           extensions neutronapiapp_v2_0

# This is the waffle
[filter:dns_filter]
paste.filter_factory = wafflehaus.dns_filter.whitelist:filter_factory
whitelist = mydomain.com
# Uncomment the line below to activate the waffle
# enabled = true

Then restart the service (or SIGHUP if it applies). If you have an error in your configuration you’ll see it in your logs very early, fix that and you’ll be rolling.

Note: All waffles are disabled until explicitly set to enabled with the enabled = true configuration flag. This allows you to deploy a waffle without concerns (beyond configuration being correct or not).

Current Deployment Quirks

Right now all the subprojects do not include wafflehaus in their requirements file. This is because of weird quirks we have been happening while deploying wafflehaus’ subprojects. We are working to get those fixed but please do note: the subprojects do require wafflehaus to be installed.

Contributing

• Typical github-etiquette expected

• Conform to the guidelines below

Development Guidelines

1. Provide a solution in its most shareable form

2. Add reusuable functionality to wafflehaus as a whole (see resource_filter)

3. Do not configure in code; configure from external files

4. Do not depend on specific OpenStack projects

5. If you must depend on a specific OpenStack project, look for the corresponding wafflehaus subproject

6. Each package should have a README.rst

7. Provide an example use-case of your middleware in the documentation

8. Do not raise exceptions, return them

9. Do not assume any other waffle exists if you can; document if you can’t

10. Readable code is preferred over clever code

Subprojects

In some situations it is impossible to completely ignore a dependency on a project. In those situations there are subprojects for those dependencies:

• wafflehaus.glance

• wafflehaus.neutron

• wafflehaus.nova

If a subproject is not listed here it may still exist. Also new ones can be made at any time.