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 # Common Design Pitfalls
 
-This document lists common pitfalls that have been observed in the process of creating 
-and modifying VAs and DTs.
+This document lists common pitfalls that have been observed in the process of
+creating and modifying VAs and DTs.
 
 ## Accidental OpenStackControlPlane Overwrites
 
-In general, it is a best practice to keep all kustomizations (`patches`, `replacements`, etc) 
-for a particular resource in one `kustomization.yaml` file.  Sometimes, however, it is 
-necessary to only perform a subset of `OpenStackControlPlane` kustomizations at a certain stage 
-of the deployment process.  For instance, you might not want to kustomize an `OpenStackControlPlane`
-CR with certain data during its initial creation stage because that data is not yet available
-for use.  Thus it would make sense to have a later stage and `kustomization.yaml` file to
-add those kustomzations once the requisite data is available (perhaps during the data plane
-deployment stage).
-
-**What is crucial to keep in mind is that any kustomizations to a resource in an earlier stage
-will be lost/overwritten in later stages where that same resource is modified _if_ those stages
-do not reference the same `kustomization.yaml` that the earlier stage utilized.**  Thus it is
-best to have a base `kustomization.yaml` for a given resource for all kustomizations common to
-all stages -- and all those stages should thus reference that `kustomization.yaml`.  Then, if
-later stages need specific changes for that resource, a separate `kustomization.yaml` can be also
-used to apply those additional kustomizations beyond the base ones.  This approach is also
-preferred to creating two somewhat-or-mostly duplicate `kustomization.yaml`s, one for the earlier
-stage and one for a later stage.  Keeping things DRY by using a common base will make future
-potential changes to the `kustomization.yaml`s less prone to error, as changes to the common file
-will automatically be picked up by all deployment stages.
-
-As an illustrative example of the best practice mentioned above, consider the following directory
-structure:
+In general, it is a best practice to keep all kustomizations (`patches`,
+`replacements`, etc) for a particular resource in one `kustomization.yaml`
+file.
+
+In some cases it is necessary to only perform a subset of
+`OpenStackControlPlane` kustomizations at a certain stage of the deployment
+process. For instance, you might not want to kustomize an
+`OpenStackControlPlane` CR with certain data during its initial creation stage
+because that data is not yet available for use. In the case of a multi-stage
+deployment, it would make sense to have a separate `kustomization.yaml` file to
+add those kustomizations once the requisite data is available (perhaps during
+the data plane deployment stage).
+
+**What is crucial to keep in mind is that any kustomizations to a resource in
+an earlier stage will be lost/overwritten in later stages where that same
+resource is modified _if_ those stages do not reference the same
+`kustomization.yaml` that the earlier stage utilized.**
+
+It is best to have a base `kustomization.yaml` for a given resource for all
+kustomizations common to all stages -- and all those stages should reference
+that `kustomization.yaml`. If later stages need specific changes for that
+resource, a separate `kustomization.yaml` can used to apply those additional
+kustomizations beyond the base ones.
+
+The use of common base files is preferred to creating two nearly-identical
+`kustomization.yaml` files; one for the earlier stage and one for a later
+stage. Keeping things DRY by using a common base will make future potential
+changes to the `kustomization.yaml` files less prone to error, as changes to
+the common file will automatically be picked up by all deployment stages.
+
+As an illustrative example of the best practice mentioned above, consider the
+following directory structure:
 
 ```
 some_dt_or_va/control_plane/kustomization.yaml
 some_dt_or_va/data_plane/kustomization.yaml
 ```
 
-If the `data_plane/kustomization.yaml` needs to modify the `OpenStackControlPlane`, then it should
-reference `../control_plane/kustomization.yaml` as a `Component` and then add additional `replacements`
-and/or `patches` as needed.  If it were to instead reference this repo's [lib/control-plane](../../lib/control-plane)
-directory as its base `OpenStackControlPlane` `Component`, then the `../control_plane/kustomization.yaml` 
-kustomizations would be lost, since the `OpenStackControlPlane` CR would be generated and applied without 
-them.
+If the `data_plane/kustomization.yaml` needs to modify the
+`OpenStackControlPlane`, then it should reference
+`../control_plane/kustomization.yaml` as a `Component` and then add additional
+`replacements` and/or `patches` as needed. 
+
+If it were to instead reference this repositories
+[lib/control-plane](../../lib/control-plane) directory as its base
+`OpenStackControlPlane` `Component`, then the
+`../control_plane/kustomization.yaml` kustomizations would be lost, since the
+`OpenStackControlPlane` CR would be generated and applied without them.
 
-It also follows in this scenario that, as mentioned above, the `OpenStackControlPlane` kustomizations for
-its initial creation stage should be located in one and only one `kustomization.yaml`.  Thus you would
-want to avoid something like this...
+The kustomizations for an `OpenStackControlPlane` resource should be within a
+single `kustomization.yaml` that contains the kustomizations for the initial
+creation stage. You want to avoid the use of multiple files, such as creating
+an additional sub-directory within the same base directory containing the
+configuration. The following would be an example to avoid:
 
 ```
 some_dt_or_va/control_plane/kustomization.yaml
 some_dt_or_va/control_plane/some_subdir/kustomization.yaml
 some_dt_or_va/data_plane/kustomization.yaml
 ```
 
-..._if_ `some_dt_or_va/control_plane/some_subdir/kustomization.yaml` has further kustomizations to the
-`OpenStackControlPlane` beyond `some_dt_or_va/control_plane/kustomization.yaml`.  (It would be fine, for
-instance, if that subdirectory was modifying some other resource like `NodeNetworkConfigurationPolicy`).
-The reason for this is again that, if later stages do not want to accidentally overwrite earlier
-`OpenStackControlPlane` kustomizations, those later stages will need to reference both
-`../control_plane/kustomization.yaml` and `../control_plane/some_subdir/kustomization.yaml` in the case
-that those stages are modifying the `OpenStackControlPlane`.  It would be better for the two directories
-to be collapsed into one, such that a single `kustomization.yaml` can be referenced as a `Component` to
-include all the previous stage's kustomizations and not inadvertently overwrite them.
+In some cases having an additional nested directory may be valid, in the case a
+subdirectory was modifying some other resource like
+`NodeNetworkConfigurationPolicy`.
+
+If later stages do not want to accidentally overwrite earlier
+`OpenStackControlPlane` kustomizations, those later stages need to reference
+both `../control_plane/kustomization.yaml` and
+`../control_plane/some_subdir/kustomization.yaml` so that those stages are
+modifying the `OpenStackControlPlane`.
+
+It would be better for the two directories to be collapsed into one, such that
+a single `kustomization.yaml` can be referenced as a `Component` to include all
+the previous stage's kustomizations and not inadvertently overwrite them.