[openstack-dev] tenant or project

Nick Chase nchase at mirantis.com
Sat Nov 23 13:07:43 UTC 2013


>From a purely documentation and explanatory standpoint I vote for
"project", if we're going to standardize on one or the other.
On Nov 23, 2013 7:13 AM, "Christopher Yeoh" <cbkyeoh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> So in the past we've used both tenant and project to refer to the same
> thing and I think its been a source of confusion for people new to
> OpenStack. In the Nova code we use both, but at least for the API we've
> been trying to consistently present to the client tenant (which is the
> majority usage) rather than project.
>
> And then Russell pointed out in https://review.openstack.org/#/c/57612/
> that the Keystone uses project in the Keystone V3 API rather than
> tenant. http://api.openstack.org/api-ref-identity.html#identity-v3
>
> I think that we should be consistent across the openstack projects.
> From a very quick look at the core openstack projects I think that they
> mostly use tenant at the moment rather than project.
>
> Does this change in Keystone nomenclature signify that we all should be
> moving to use project rather than tenant in the future (its not
> too late to do a big a search and replace for the Nova V3 API). And is
> the plan for Keystone python client to also change to project rather
> than tenant?
>
> Chris
>
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