[Pulp-dev] Pulp 3 Default Ports

[Mike DePaulo]

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 4:36 PM Mike DePaulo <mdepaulo at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 3:46 PM Eric Helms <ehelms at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm fine if someone wants to take up the effort to find and suggest two ports that match all of those as the defaults.
>
> I suggest:
> 24816 (powers of 2: 2, 4, 8, 16)
> 24817
>
> They're not officially reserved, and only used by Apple "med-ltp" as
> part of a block of 1000 ports. [1] [2]
>
> I am new to Pulp, but I think other devs indicated that users may
> browse available content. If so, I suggest we use 24816 for content,
> and 24817 for API.
>
> > I've already opened a PR to make port customization a reality. In most environments, these ports won't see the light of day as they will be running services on localhost with a webserver proxying to them. I was aiming for sane defaults, that users and developers could easily rely on and expect across basic environments. And allow customization in environments that need it.
>
> Understood, I was not aware of this. But we need to prevent any
> conflicts by default. Even if we only listen on localhost, we can
> conflict with services listening on all interfaces. Users are likely
> to give up on Pulp if they run into a port conflict; either because
> they cannot figure it out ("why isn't this service starting?") or
> because they spend too much time trying to set it up and other
> priorities come up.

Since users can interact with the API via web browser, I submitted a
task for 24816 (API) & 24817 (content):
https://pulp.plan.io/issues/4556

-Mike