[openstack-dev] [nova] Future of the Nova API

Russell Bryant rbryant at redhat.com
Wed Feb 26 11:52:32 UTC 2014


On 02/25/2014 05:47 PM, Dan Smith wrote:
>> Yeah, so objects is the big one here.
> 
> Objects, and everything else. With no-db-compute we did it for a couple
> cycles, then objects, next it will be retooling flows to conductor, then
> dealing with tasks, talking to gantt, etc. It's not going to end any
> time soon.
> 
>> So what kind of reaction are the Keystone people getting to that?  Do
>> they plan on removing their V2 API at some point?  Or just maintain it
>> with bug fixes forever?
> 
> Yep, that would be good data. We also need to factor in the relative
> deployment scale of nova installations vs. keystone installations in the
> world (AFAIK, RAX doesn't use keystone for example).

The Keystone API is also much smaller.

The path from glance v1 to v2 is another interesting data point.
Despite being a much smaller API surface, Glance has had both v1 and v2
for quite some time.  I'm not sure of the history or expected timeline
for v1 to go away, though.

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Russell Bryant



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