I think a 30 minute re-cap session would be good on Friday because not everyone is going to be able to attend every session, depending on their own resulting schedule and commitments. -Julia On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 11:56 AM Lance Bragstad <lbragstad@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey all,
Several projects are working through RBAC overhauls and naturally sessions are cropping up for the PTG.
I tried bouncing around to various policy sessions during the Wallaby PTG, but I didn't plan things out very well. As a result, I missed sessions, had duplicate conversations with multiple groups, and ended up being more reactive than I'd like.
To prevent that, Ghanshyam and I have condensed all the policy/RBAC sessions we know about in a single etherpad [0].
I know most projects are still firming up their schedules, but I've written down the session times that we know of and organized them chronologically. My hope is that this will help us group similar discussions and reach broader consensus on topics easier and quicker.
For example, keystone and nova have a cross-project session on Thursday to discuss how nova should handle consuming system-scoped tokens for project-specific operations. This topic certainly isn't exclusive to nova. It'll impact just about every other service and approaching it consistently will be huge for end users and operators. Another good example of this would be the glance refactor to integrate system-scope support we're going to talk about on Wednesday (cinder and barbican are potentially facing very similar refactors). Each session in the etherpad [0] has topics, so if a topic sounds relevant to your service, please feel free to drop into those discussions.
A rough outline is that:
- Monday we're going to focus on QA and general policy problems (e.g., converting tempest to use system-scope, the JSON->YAML community goal, overall status from Wallaby, etc) - Tuesday we're going to find ways to adopt system-scope in cinder - Wednesday we're going to work through system-scope adoption, the meta definitions API, and test coverage in glance - Thursday we're going to discuss what the experience should be like for operators using system-scoped tokens to do project-specific operations with nova (e.g., rebooting instances)
I'm contemplating hosting a 30 minute recap session on Friday that attempts to summarize everything from the week regarding RBAC discussions. If that sounds useful, I'll ask Kristi if I can use one of the keystone sessions for that recap.
I know, this feels like a lot of focus for one thing and I appreciate everyone's help working through this stuff. But, I'm hopeful that better organization throughout the PTG week will result in less confusion about what we plan to do in Xena with RBAC so we can deliver something useful to users and operators.
Thanks,
Lance