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+# Copyright 2017 The Openstack-Helm Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+{{- define "helm-toolkit.db_init" }}
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Copyright 2017 Pete Birley
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Creates db and user for an OpenStack Service:
+# Set ROOT_DB_CONNECTION and DB_CONNECTION environment variables to contain
+# SQLAlchemy strings for the root connection to the database and the one you
+# wish the service to use. Alternatively, you can use an ini formatted config
+# at the location specified by OPENSTACK_CONFIG_FILE, and extract the string
+# from the key OPENSTACK_CONFIG_DB_KEY, in the section specified by
+# OPENSTACK_CONFIG_DB_SECTION.
+
+import os
+import sys
+import ConfigParser
+from sqlalchemy import create_engine
+
+# Get the connection string for the service db root user
+if "ROOT_DB_CONNECTION" in os.environ:
+    db_connection = os.environ['ROOT_DB_CONNECTION']
+else:
+    print 'ROOT_DB_CONNECTION env var missing'
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+# Get the connection string for the service db
+if "OPENSTACK_CONFIG_FILE" in os.environ:
+    try:
+        os_conf = os.environ['OPENSTACK_CONFIG_FILE']
+        if "OPENSTACK_CONFIG_DB_SECTION" in os.environ:
+            os_conf_section = os.environ['OPENSTACK_CONFIG_DB_SECTION']
+        else:
+            print 'Env var OPENSTACK_CONFIG_DB_SECTION not set'
+            sys.exit(1)
+        if "OPENSTACK_CONFIG_DB_KEY" in os.environ:
+            os_conf_key = os.environ['OPENSTACK_CONFIG_DB_KEY']
+        else:
+            print 'Env var OPENSTACK_CONFIG_DB_KEY not set'
+            sys.exit(1)
+        config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()
+        print("Using {0} as db config source".format(os_conf))
+        config.read(os_conf)
+        print("Trying to load db config from {0}:{1}".format(
+            os_conf_section, os_conf_key))
+        user_db_conn = config.get(os_conf_section, os_conf_key)
+        print("Got config from {0}".format(os_conf))
+    except:
+        print("Tried to load config from {0} but failed.".format(os_conf))
+        sys.exit(1)
+elif "DB_CONNECTION" in os.environ:
+    user_db_conn = os.environ['DB_CONNECTION']
+    print 'Got config from DB_CONNECTION env var'
+else:
+    print 'Could not get db config, either from config file or env var'
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+# Root DB engine
+try:
+    root_engine_full = create_engine(db_connection)
+    root_user = root_engine_full.url.username
+    root_password = root_engine_full.url.password
+    drivername = root_engine_full.url.drivername
+    host = root_engine_full.url.host
+    port = root_engine_full.url.port
+    root_engine_url = ''.join([drivername, '://', root_user, ':', root_password, '@', host, ':', str (port)])
+    root_engine = create_engine(root_engine_url)
+    connection = root_engine.connect()
+    connection.close()
+except:
+    print 'Could not connect to database as root user'
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+# User DB engine
+try:
+    user_engine = create_engine(user_db_conn)
+    # Get our user data out of the user_engine
+    database = user_engine.url.database
+    user = user_engine.url.username
+    password = user_engine.url.password
+    print 'Got user db config'
+except:
+    print 'Could not get user database config'
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+# Create DB
+try:
+    root_engine.execute("CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS {0}".format(database))
+    print("Created database {0}".format(database))
+except:
+    print("Could not create database {0}".format(database))
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+# Create DB User
+try:
+    root_engine.execute(
+        "GRANT ALL ON `{0}`.* TO \'{1}\'@\'%%\' IDENTIFIED BY \'{2}\'".format(
+            database, user, password))
+    print("Created user {0} for {1}".format(user, database))
+except:
+    print("Could not create user {0} for {1}".format(user, database))
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+# Test connection
+try:
+    connection = user_engine.connect()
+    connection.close()
+    print 'Database connection for user ok'
+except:
+    print 'Could not connect to database as user'
+    sys.exit(1)
+{{- end }}