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+..
+ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
+ License.
+
+ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
+
+ Sections of this template were taken directly from the Nova spec
+ template at:
+ https://github.com/openstack/nova-specs/blob/master/specs/template.rst
+
+=============================
+CouchDB Configuration Groups
+=============================
+
+Launchpad Blueprint:
+https://blueprints.launchpad.net/trove/+spec/couchdb-configuration-groups
+
+Problem Description
+===================
+
+The CouchDB datastore currently does not support configuration groups.
+
+Proposed Change
+===============
+
+The patch set will implement configuration groups for CouchDB.
+
+CouchDB stores its configuration in 'local.ini' file.
+
+Most configuration properties will be available via configuration groups.
+Some, however, do not make sense in the Trove context.
+
+These include (will be documented in the configuration template):
+
+   - guestagent specific (e.g. file paths, passwords, file access rules)
+   - items that Trove needs to control (replication/clustering/log properties)
+
+See `Available Configuration Properties`_ for the full list of supported
+options.
+
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+None
+
+Database
+--------
+
+None
+
+Public API
+----------
+
+None
+
+Public API Security
+-------------------
+
+None
+
+Python API
+----------
+
+None
+
+CLI (python-troveclient)
+------------------------
+
+None
+
+Internal API
+------------
+
+CLI (python-troveclient)
+------------------------
+
+This work will enable the following client commands:
+
+   * configuration-attach
+   * configuration-detach
+
+Guest Agent
+-----------
+
+* Implement *update_overrides* and *apply_overrides* in
+  the *manager* and *service* modules.
+* A configuration template and validation rules with changes noted in
+  `Available Configuration Properties`_ will be provided.
+
+The existing 'IniCodec' implementation will be reused to handle
+text-file operations.
+
+
+Alternatives
+------------
+
+None
+
+Dashboard Impact (UX)
+=====================
+
+None
+
+Implementation
+==============
+
+Assignee(s)
+-----------
+
+Sonali Goyal <sonaligoyal654321@gmail.com>
+Victoria Martinez de la Cruz <victoria@redhat.com>
+
+Milestones
+----------
+
+Netwon-1
+
+Work Items
+----------
+
+All changes will be done in the context of a single task.
+
+1. Implement configuration-related manager API calls:
+
+   .. code-block:: python
+
+      def update_overrides(self, context, overrides, remove=False)
+      def apply_overrides(self, context, overrides)
+
+Upgrade Implications
+====================
+
+None
+
+Dependencies
+============
+
+The patch set will be building on functionality implemented in blueprint:
+couchdb-database-user-functions
+
+
+Testing
+=======
+
+The change is largely covered by the existing configuration tests.
+Unit tests will be added to validate any CouchDB-specific codepaths.
+
+Documentation Impact
+====================
+
+The datastore documentation should be updated to reflect the enabled features.
+
+References
+==========
+
+.. [1] Documentation on CouchDB configuration: http://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/config/index.html
+
+Appendix
+========
+
+Available Configuration Properties
+----------------------------------
+
+The properties configurable by the user via the Trove API:
+   [attachments]
+   - compressible_types
+   - compression_level
+   [couchdb]
+   - delayed_commits
+   - max_attachment_chunk_size
+   - attachment_stream_buffer_size
+   - max_dbs_open
+   - max_document_size
+   - os_process_timeout
+   [daemons]
+   - auth_cache
+   - db_update_notifier
+   - external_manager
+   - httpd
+   - httpsd
+   - query_servers
+   - stats_aggregator
+   - stats_collector
+   - uuids
+   - view_manager
+   - vhosts
+   [httpd]
+   - allow_jsonp
+   - authentication_handlers
+   - changes_timeout
+   - config_whitelist
+   - default_handler
+   - enable_cors
+   - log_max_chunk_size
+   - redirect_vhost_handler
+   - secure_rewrites
+   - server_options
+   - socket_options
+   - vhost_global_handlers
+   - x_forwarded_host
+   - x_forwarded_proto
+   - x_forwarded_ssl
+   [replicator]
+   - checkpoint_interval
+   - connection_timeout
+   - db
+   - http_connections
+   - max_replication_retry_count
+   - retries_per_request
+   - socket_options
+   - ssl_certificate_max_depth
+   - ssl_trusted_certificates_file
+   - use_checkpoints
+   - verify_ssl_certificates
+   - worker_batch_size
+   - worker_processes
+   [query_server_config]
+   - commit_freq
+   - os_process_limit
+   - reduce_limit
+   [os_daemon_settings]
+   - max_retries
+   - retry_time
+   [couch_httpd_auth]
+   - allow_persistent_cookies
+   - auth_cache_size
+   - authentication_db
+   - authentication_redirect
+   - iterations
+   - max_iterations
+   - min_iterations
+   - proxy_use_secret
+   - public_fields
+   - require_valid_user
+   - secret
+   - timeout
+   - users_db_public
+   - x_auth_roles
+   - x_auth_token
+   - x_auth_username
+   - use_users_db
+   [compaction_daemon]
+   - check_interval
+   - min_file_size
+   [database_compaction]
+   - doc_buffer_size
+   - checkpoint_after
+   [log]
+   - include_sasl
+   - level
+   [view_compaction]
+   - keyvalue_buffer_size
+
+Guestagent-controlled properties:
+
+   [httpd]
+   - port
+   - bind_address
+   [log]
+   - file
+   [couchdb]
+   - uri_file
+   - util_driver_dir
+   - view_index_dir
+   - database_dir
+