[openstack-dev] [Nova][Glance] Support of v1 and v2 glance APIs in Nova

Joe Gordon joe.gordon0 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 17 19:01:31 UTC 2013


On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Tim Bell <Tim.Bell at cern.ch> wrote:

>
> Would the effort to do the following be substantial ?
>
> - Nova doing the intelligent thing (i.e. choosing the best one for the
> job) by default
> - An operator override (do what I tell you in the config file)
>
> Examples where I would want to use the operator override are
>
> - If I upgrade Glance to the latest version, I may want to run with the v1
> API for a bit and then do the upgrade to v2 at a later stage
> - In testing, I want to validate the latest Nova code against a v1 glance
> API running on the latest glance server code base
>
> Planning multi-component upgrades is tough and it would be good to have
> some overrides in the event that some features don't work quite as we want
> but still avoid a code roll back.
>

Can both of these cases be covered by configuring the keystone catalog?


>
> Tim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Russell Bryant [mailto:rbryant at redhat.com]
> > Sent: 17 October 2013 20:01
> > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List
> > Subject: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Glance] Support of v1 and v2 glance APIs
> in Nova
> >
> > The following blueprint has been proposed for Nova:
> >
> >     https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/use-glance-v2-api
> >
> > It proposes a new config option for Nova to allow choosing whether Nova
> should use v1 or v2 of the Glance API.  I'd like to know if we can
> > do this without a config option.
> >
> > Can Nova just discover which versions and pick one (v2) ?  And if you
> don't like the way Nova picks one, a deployer can just only expose
> > one of the APIs on the API endpoint that Nova uses.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
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> > Russell Bryant
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