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

Monty Taylor mordred at inaugust.com
Sat Feb 13 01:28:43 UTC 2016


On 02/12/2016 06:40 PM, John Griffith wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 5:01 AM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net
> <mailto:sean at dague.net>> 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.
>
>              -Sean
>
>     --
>     Sean Dague
>     http://dague.net
>
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> ​I honestly don't have any real feeling about one over the other; BUT I
> applaud the fact that somebody was brave enough to raise the question again.
>
> Sounds like Project is where we're supposed to be, so if we can get it
> in Keystone we can all go work on updating it once and for all?​

Tis all good in keystone. If you're using keystoneauth and keystone v3 
everything will work magically. However, there are still some steps 
locally for things like config files and whatnot.




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