[Openstack-operators] [openstack-dev] [nova][glance] Who needs multiple api_servers?

Blair Bethwaite blair.bethwaite at gmail.com
Mon May 1 18:16:36 UTC 2017


On 28 April 2017 at 21:17, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:
> On 04/28/2017 12:50 AM, Blair Bethwaite wrote:
>> We at Nectar are in the same boat as Mike. Our use-case is a little
>> bit more about geo-distributed operations though - our Cells are in
>> different States around the country, so the local glance-apis are
>> particularly important for caching popular images close to the
>> nova-computes. We consider these glance-apis as part of the underlying
>> cloud infra rather than user-facing, so I think we'd prefer not to see
>> them in the service-catalog returned to users either... is there going
>> to be a (standard) way to hide them?
>
> In a situation like this, where Cells are geographically bounded, is
> there also a Region for that Cell/Glance?

Hi Sean. Nope, just the one global region and set of user-facing APIs.
Those other glance-apis are internal architectural details and should
be hidden from the public catalog so as not to confuse users and/or
over-expose information.

Cheers,

-- 
Cheers,
~Blairo



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