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On 12/13/2013 01:53 PM, Tzu-Mainn Chen wrote:
>> On 2013/13/12 11:20, Tzu-Mainn Chen wrote:
>>> These look good!  Quick question - can you explain the purpose of Node
>>> Tags?  Are they
>>> an additional way to filter nodes through nova-scheduler (is that even
>>> possible?), or
>>> are they there solely for display in the UI?
>>>
>>> Mainn
>>
>> We start easy, so that's solely for UI needs of filtering and monitoring
>> (grouping of nodes). It is already in Ironic, so there is no reason why
>> not to take advantage of it.
>> -- Jarda
>
> Okay, great.  Just for further clarification, are you expecting this UI filtering
> to be present in release 0?  I don't think Ironic natively supports filtering
> by node tag, so that would be further work that would have to be done.
>
> Mainn

I might be getting ahead of things, but will the tags be free-form 
entered by the user, pre-entered in a separate settings and selectable 
at node register/update time, or locked into a select few that we specify?