[openstack-dev] [Nova] Remove ratelimits from nova v3 api

Kevin L. Mitchell kevin.mitchell at rackspace.com
Mon Nov 25 17:18:49 UTC 2013


On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 07:38 -0500, David Hill wrote:
>    Is removing the ratelimiting code part of the roadmap?  I fear that
> if it's removed now, it may have to be re-implemented in the future as
> the cloud deployments become more mainstream ... Without ratelimit,
> some evil users could DOS Openstack !

I'm going to suggest that something like Turnstile[1] with
nova_limits[2] is the way to go here for ratelimiting.

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/turnstile
[2] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nova_limits
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Kevin L. Mitchell <kevin.mitchell at rackspace.com>
Rackspace




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