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On 07/02/2013 07:24 AM, John Garbutt wrote:
> On 1 July 2013 15:49, Andrew Laski <andrew.laski at rackspace.com> wrote:
>> On 07/01/13 at 11:23am, Mauro S M Rodrigues wrote:
>>> One more though, about os-multiple-create: I was also thinking to remove
>>> it, I don't see any real advantage to use it since it doesn't offer any kind
>>> of flexibility like chose different flavors, images and other attributes. So
>>> anyone creating multiple servers would probably prefer an external
>>> automation tool instead of multiple server IMHO.
>>>
>>> So anyone using it? There are a good reason to keep it? Did I miss
>>> something about this extension?
>>
>> I would like to see this extension go away, but only by a small margin.
>> Just because it complicates the boot/spawn workflow a bit, which really
>> isn't a big deal.
> 
> I am +1 for not moving os-multiple-create into v3.
> 
> I think this work is a better way to look at spawning multiple VMs:
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/instance-group-api-extension
> 
> The CLI can then get updated so users are still able to spawn multiple
> VMs in a nice way.
> 
> Heat, presumably, will control this, eventually.

Instance groups seems different.  That's about putting multiple
instances in a group for the purposes of applying policy.  I don't see
anything in there that replicates booting multiple instances with a
single API call.

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Russell Bryant