Greetings Openstackers!

Currently ironic supports only one type of console: serial

The current implementation also gives as assumed the support for just one type of console, but not that long ago a spec to also support a graphical console type [1] has been accepted and we're now close to see a first patch with basic support merged [2].

With the introduction of the support for the graphical console, the need to define a new parameter called "console_type" has been recognized.

In practice, at the moment that would mean having "console" and "graphical" as console types, which could result in a confusing and in the end not correct implementation.

With this message I'd like to start a discussion on the potential impact of the possible future renaming of everything that currently involves the serial console from "console" to "serial_console" or equivalent.

Thanks,

Riccardo

[1] https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/ironic-specs/specs/not-implemented/vnc... [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/547356/