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On 12/16/2013 08:48 PM, Jay Dobies wrote:
>
>
> 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?
>

We are definitely going ahead. :-) Though I would lean to free form 
tags, that users could use as they want (grouping, creating policies, 
etc.). Plus there would be a basic set we specify for the users.

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