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Don’t you love “yaml”, yes you do ! or at least that’s what the industry told you to love! When you were in school your teacher told you about “XML” and how it will solve all the industry problems (and there was many in the late 90s). But you learned that you hate reaching to your "<" and" ">" keys and rather have something else. So then the industry came up with “json” so computer or yourself can talk to each others, that’s nice for computers but actually not so nice for yourself it was actually a lie and was not made for yourself to read and write but only for comptures. So then the “industry” came up with yaml, indentation based? you get it and that’s humm all about it, now you are stuck counting whitespaces in a 3000 lines file trying to figure out where goes where…. ...

After almost five years at Rackspace UK I have now decided to move on and come back for good to Paris I will be now at eNovance working as before on OpenStack projects.

I have done lately quite a bit of work with python-novaclient the (nova/keystone) openstack client. I often experiment it with ipython in the console. There is a nice debugging facility in novaclient which you can see while using –debug argument on the command line and if you wanted to use it with ipython you could have that at the beginning of your session : ...