[openstack-dev] [all] tenant vs. project

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 13:36:41 UTC 2016


On 02/12/2016 07:01 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
> Ok... this is going to be one of those threads, but I wanted to try to
> get resolution here.
>
> OpenStack is wildly inconsistent in it's use of tenant vs. project. As
> someone that wasn't here at the beginning, I'm not even sure which one
> we are supposed to be transitioning from -> to.
>
> At a minimum I'd like to make all of devstack use 1 term, which is the
> term we're trying to get to. That will help move the needle.
>
> However, again, I'm not sure which one that is supposed to be (comments
> in various places show movement in both directions). So people with
> deeper knowledge here, can you speak up as to which is the deprecated
> term and which is the term moving forward.

"Project" is the term that should be used.

Best,
-jay



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