<div dir="ltr">CC'd Adam Young<div><br></div><div>Several of us were very much in favor of this around the Folsom release, but we settled on domains as a solution to the most immediate use case (isolation between flat collections of tenants, without impacting the rest of openstack). I don't think it has been discussed much in the keystone community since, but it's still a concept that I'm very much interested in, as it's much more powerful than domains when it comes to issues like granular delegation.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vishvananda@gmail.com" target="_blank">vishvananda@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Everyone,<br>
<br>
I apologize for the obtuse title, but there isn't a better succinct term to describe what is needed. OpenStack has no support for multiple owners of objects. This means that a variety of private cloud use cases are simply not supported. Specifically, objects in the system can only be managed on the tenant level or globally.<br>
<br>
The key use case here is to delegate administration rights for a group of tenants to a specific user/role. There is something in Keystone called a “domain” which supports part of this functionality, but without support from all of the projects, this concept is pretty useless.<br>
<br>
In IRC today I had a brief discussion about how we could address this. I have put some details and a straw man up here:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HierarchicalMultitenancy" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HierarchicalMultitenancy</a><br>
<br>
I would like to discuss this strawman and organize a group of people to get actual work done by having an irc meeting this Friday at 1600UTC. I know this time is probably a bit tough for Europe, so if we decide we need a regular meeting to discuss progress then we can vote on a better time for this meeting.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings#Hierarchical_Multitenancy_Meeting" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings#Hierarchical_Multitenancy_Meeting</a><br>
<br>
Please note that this is going to be an active team that produces code. We will *NOT* spend a lot of time debating approaches, and instead focus on making something that works and learning as we go. The output of this team will be a MultiTenant devstack install that actually works, so that we can ensure the features we are adding to each project work together.<br>
<br>
Vish<br>
<br>_______________________________________________<br>
OpenStack-dev mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org">OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br></div>