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On 12/13/2016 08:09 AM, Kseniya Tychkova wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to share a spec [1] with you.
> The main idea of this spec is to start a discussion about quota
> management in the OpenStack.
>
> Quotas are scattered across OpenStack services. Each service defines
> it's own model and API for
> managing resource's limits. Because of that, there are several problems:
>
>   * Names of the resources and resource-service mapping  are hardcoded.
>     They are hardcoded in the service code (Nova, for example) and it
>     should be hardcoded in the client code (Horizon, for example).
>
>   * There is no centralized quota management for OpenStack projects.
>   * Cinder, Nova and Neutron support (or going to support) hierarchical
>     quotas in different ways.
>
> There should be a single point of managing quotas in OpenStack.
> Keystone looks like a proper place to store resource's limits because:
>
>   * Keystone stores projects
>   * Limits are belong to project.

Another excellent reason to store quota limits in Keystone is because 
virtually all non-list operations require some interaction with quota 
limits, and requiring Nova (or Cinder or Neutron) to call out to yet 
another service each time the user makes one of those non-list 
operations is sub-optimal when Nova is already making a call to Keystone 
for authentication.

The alternative is to have a separate REST API service just for storing 
and returning the quota limits and have Nova, Cinder and Neutron call 
this new service each time a non-list operation is made. While this is 
possible, it's just yet another service that needs to be managed and 
deployed by all installations of OpenStack.

Best,
-jay

> There are a lot of possible issues with “store limits in Keystone”
> approach. But all of them can be discussed
> and such discussion should lead to the good solution for quotas
> management  in Openstack.
>
> Please take a look at the spec when you have time and share your ideas
> or concerns.
>
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/363765/
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Kseniya
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