[openstack-dev] [nova] Usability question for the server migrations API

Matt Riedemann mriedemos at gmail.com
Sat Apr 15 13:29:57 UTC 2017


On 4/15/2017 6:17 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
>
> For clarification, part of the reason that this only shows in progress
> things is because of instance_actions. It was assumed that if people
> wanted to know what happened in the past, they'd use that mechanism
> instead, this was only about live things.
>
> That might be a faulty assumption, it might be there there is missing
> information in instance actions, or that the policy access isn't right
> for a set of users. But it would be good to be explicit about what's
> wrong with instance actions for the original assumption (that past
> events should only be exposed there) to not be true. Or if there should
> be more of a concerned push to polish the instance_actions API.
>
>     -Sean
>

Instance actions don't show the details that the migrations response 
has, like the source and target compute hosts for the migration. I don't 
think we want to shoehorn that into the instance actions API or model.

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Thanks,

Matt



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