[openstack-dev] [neutron] Confusion around the complexity

Armando M. armamig at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 19:39:33 UTC 2017


On 13 January 2017 at 10:47, Clint Byrum <clint at fewbar.com> wrote:

> Excerpts from Joshua Harlow's message of 2017-01-12 22:38:46 -0800:
> > Kevin Benton wrote:
> > > If you don't want users to specify network details, then use the get me
> > > a network extension or just have them boot to a public (or other
> > > pre-created) network.
> > >
> > > In your thought experiment, why is your iPhone app developer not just
> > > using a PaaS that handles instance scaling, load balancing and HA? Why
> > > would he/she want to spend time managing security updates and log
> > > rotation for an operating system running inside another program
> > > pretending to be hardware? Different levels of abstraction solve
> > > different use cases.
> >
> > Fair point, probably mr/mrs iPhone app developer should be doing that.
> >
>
> I totally disagree. If PaaS was the answer, they'd all be using PaaS.
>
> Maybe some day, but that's no excuse for having an overly complex story
> for the base. I totally appreciate that "Get me a network" is an effort
> to address this. But after reading docs on it, I actually have no idea
> how it works or how to make use of it (I do have a decent understanding
> of how to setup a default subnetpool as an operator).
>

I'd be happy to improve the docs, but your feedback is not very actionable.
Any chance you can elaborate on what you're struggling with?

Thanks,
Armando


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