The following options allow configuration that EC2API supports.
| Configuration option = Default value | Description | 
|---|---|
| [DEFAULT] | |
cinder_service_type = volumev2 | 
(String) Service type of Volume API, registered in Keystone catalog. | 
ec2_timestamp_expiry = 300 | 
(Integer) Time in seconds before ec2 timestamp expires | 
keystone_ec2_tokens_url = http://localhost:5000/v3/ec2tokens | 
(String) URL to authenticate token from ec2 request. | 
nova_service_type = compute | 
(String) Service type of Compute API, registered in Keystone catalog. Should be v2.1 with microversion support. If it is obsolete v2, a lot of useful EC2 compliant instance properties will be unavailable. | 
| Configuration option = Default value | Description | 
|---|---|
| [database] | |
use_tpool = False | 
(Boolean) Enable the experimental use of thread pooling for all DB API calls | 
| Configuration option = Default value | Description | 
|---|---|
| [DEFAULT] | |
ec2api_listen = 0.0.0.0 | 
(String) The IP address on which the EC2 API will listen. | 
ec2api_listen_port = 8788 | 
(Integer) The port on which the EC2 API will listen. | 
ec2api_use_ssl = False | 
(Boolean) Enable ssl connections or not for EC2 API | 
ec2api_workers = None | 
(Integer) Number of workers for EC2 API service. The default will be equal to the number of CPUs available. | 
ssl_cert_file = None | 
(String) SSL certificate of API server | 
ssl_key_file = None | 
(String) SSL private key of API server | 
use_forwarded_for = False | 
(Boolean) Treat X-Forwarded-For as the canonical remote address. Only enable this if you have a sanitizing proxy. | 
| Configuration option = Default value | Description | 
|---|---|
| [DEFAULT] | |
default_flavor = m1.small | 
(String) A flavor to use as a default instance type | 
disable_ec2_classic = None | 
(Boolean) True if server does not support EC2 Classic mode in favor of default VPC | 
ec2_host = $my_ip | 
(String) The IP address of the EC2 API server | 
ec2_path = / | 
(String) The path prefix used to call the ec2 API server | 
ec2_port = 8788 | 
(Integer) The port of the EC2 API server | 
ec2_private_dns_show_ip = False | 
(Boolean) Return the IP address as private dns hostname in describe instances | 
ec2_scheme = http | 
(String) The protocol to use when connecting to the EC2 API server (http, https) | 
external_network = None | 
(String) Name of the external network, which is used to connectVPCs to Internet and to allocate Elastic IPs. | 
internal_service_availability_zone = internal | 
(String) The availability_zone to show internal services under | 
my_ip = 10.0.0.1 | 
(String) IP address of this host | 
network_device_mtu = 1500 | 
(Integer) MTU size to set by DHCP for instances. Corresponds with the network_device_mtu in ec2api.conf. | 
region_list = | 
(List) List of region=fqdn pairs separated by commas | 
| Configuration option = Default value | Description | 
|---|---|
| [DEFAULT] | |
image_decryption_dir = /tmp | 
(String) Parent directory for tempdir used for image decryption | 
s3_region = RegionOne | 
(String) Region of S3 server | 
s3_url = http://$my_ip:3334 | 
(String) URL to S3 server | 
x509_root_private_key = None | 
(String) Path to ca private key file | 
| Configuration option = Default value | Description | 
|---|---|
| [DEFAULT] | |
api_paste_config = api-paste.ini | 
(String) File name for the paste.deploy config for ec2api | 
max_header_line = 16384 | 
(Integer) Maximum line size of message headers to be accepted. max_header_line may need to be increased when using large tokens (typically those generated by the Keystone v3 API with big service catalogs). | 
tcp_keepidle = 600 | 
(Integer) Sets the value of TCP_KEEPIDLE in seconds for each server socket. Not supported on OS X. | 
wsgi_default_pool_size = 1000 | 
(Integer) Size of the pool of greenthreads used by wsgi | 
wsgi_log_format = %(client_ip)s "%(request_line)s" status: %(status_code)s len: %(body_length)s time: %(wall_seconds).7f | 
(String) A python format string that is used as the template to generate log lines. The following values can be formatted into it: client_ip, date_time, request_line, status_code, body_length, wall_seconds. | 
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