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> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Armando M. <armamig at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>   One advantage of the service plugin is that one can leverage the
>>> neutron common framework such as Keystone authentication where common
>>> scoping is done. It would be important in the policy type of framework to
>>> have such scoping
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>> The framework you're referring to is common and already reusable, it's
>> not a prerogative of Neutron.
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>  Are you suggesting that Service Plugins, L3, IPAM etc become individual
> endpoints, resulting in redundant authentication round-trips for each of
> the components.
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> Wouldn't this result in degraded performance and potential consistency
> issues?
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The endpoint - in the OpenStack lingo - that exposes the API abstractions
(concepts and operations) can be, logically and physically, different from
the worker that implements these abstractions; authentication is orthogonal
to this and I am not suggesting what you mention.
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