[openstack-dev] Quota Management

Dolph Mathews dolph.mathews at gmail.com
Thu Apr 3 16:27:19 UTC 2014


On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 15:02 +0000, Cazzolato, Sergio J wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I’d like to know your thoughts regarding Quota Management… I’ve been
> > contributing to this topic for icehouse and noticed some issues and
> > discussions around its implementation like code is duplicated, synch
> > problems with database, not having an homogeneous logic, etc… so I was
> > thinking that maybe a centralized implementation could be a solution
> > for this… As far as I know there was a discussion during the last
> > summit and the decision was to use Keystone for a Centralized Quota
> > Management solution but I don’t have the details on that discussion…
> > Also I was looking at Boson (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Boson)
> > that seems to be a nice solution for this and also addresses the
> > scenario where Nova is deployed in a multi-cell manner and some other
> > interesting things.
>
> Boson does indeed look interesting, but who is working on it, if anyone
> at this point? I agree that having a centralized quota management system
> makes sense, in order to make the handling of quotas and reservations
> consistent across projects as well as to deal with global quota
> management properly (i.e. quotas that span multiple cells/AZs)
>

++ but it looks to be an abandoned effort. There's a couple forks, but not
with any recent activity:

  https://github.com/klmitch/boson

(correct me if I'm just looking in the wrong place!)


>
> Best,
> -jay
>
>
>
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