[openstack-dev] Quantum/Balancer API design specification draft

Gary Kotton gkotton at redhat.com
Tue Oct 30 07:46:12 UTC 2012


On 10/29/2012 10:25 PM, Jay Pipes wrote:
> On 09/25/2012 07:44 AM, Alex Gosse wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've been working on a /draft/ design (as more of a thought experiment
>> than anything) for extensions to Quantum that address load balancing.  I
>> started with the Quantum API v2 document as a sort of template in order
>> to conform as closely as possible to that.  This is deliberately
>> intended to not include any influence from either /Atlas-LB/ or
>> /Equilibrium/ (aka Mirantis' LBaaS).  Rather, it attempts to take into
>> account only the possible use-cases and the current design of Quantum,
>> and not any previous efforts to provide an independent LBaaS solution.
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1B8Xu8Td05dd_ar4aTej8pA3UDH8f3-bE8h5Oyg6Z2OU
>>
>> I wanted to get the */concepts/* section hashed out first, then flesh
>> out the API operations later.
>>
>> All feedback welcome!

Hi,
Please take a look at http://wiki.openstack.org/Quantum/LBaaS/API_1.0
Thanks
Gary
> Hi Alex, pretty much everything lgtm. Though I would note that the REST
> APIs in OpenStack components generally use the plural of the resource
> name instead of the singular. So, for instance, I'd change:
>
> POST /balancer/service
>
> to:
>
> POST /balancer/services
>
> Hope that helps. Looking forward to seeing some movement on this and see
> how the Mirantis LBaaS stuff can be merged into this effort.
>
> Best,
> -jay
>
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