NovaCheetahToJinjaMigration

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Overview

Currently, Nova uses Cheetah for templating. In order to reduce duplicate dependency functionality among projects, Nova should use the Jinja2 templating system instead, as per the mailing list discussion.

This page will track classes that utilize Cheetah

Classes/Files

nova/virt/netutils.py

• _late_load_cheetah()
• build_template()
• global Template

nova/virt/xenapi/vm_utils.py

• _prepare_injectables()

nova/virt/baremetal/pxe.py

• _get_cheetah()
• global CHEETAH
• build_pxe_config()
• build_network_config()

nova/virt/baremetal/tilera.py

• _get_cheetah()
• global CHEETAH
• build_network_config()

nova/console/xvp.py

• from Cheetah import Template
• XVPConsoleProxy . _rebuild_xvp_conf()