[openstack-dev] Hierarchicical Multitenancy Discussion

Vishvananda Ishaya vishvananda at gmail.com
Thu Jan 30 18:46:10 UTC 2014


Thanks Soren, you are correct! Yay Timezones

Vish

On Jan 30, 2014, at 10:39 AM, Soren Hansen <soren at linux2go.dk> wrote:

> 2100 UTC is 1 PM Pacific. :-)
> 
> Den 29/01/2014 17.01 skrev "Vishvananda Ishaya" <vishvananda at gmail.com>:
> I apologize for the confusion. The Wiki time of 2100 UTC is the correct time (Noon Pacific time). We can move tne next meeting to a different day/time that is more convienient for Europe.
> 
> Vish
> 
> 
> On Jan 29, 2014, at 1:56 AM, Florent Flament <florent.flament-ext at cloudwatt.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Vishvananda,
> >
> > I would be interested in such a working group.
> > Can you please confirm the meeting hour for this Friday ?
> > I've seen 1600 UTC in your email and 2100 UTC in the wiki ( https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings#Hierarchical_Multitenancy_Meeting ). As I'm in Europe I'd prefer 1600 UTC.
> >
> > Florent Flament
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Vishvananda Ishaya" <vishvananda at gmail.com>
> > To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 7:35:15 PM
> > Subject: [openstack-dev] Hierarchicical Multitenancy Discussion
> >
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I apologize for the obtuse title, but there isn't a better succinct term to describe what is needed. OpenStack has no support for multiple owners of objects. This means that a variety of private cloud use cases are simply not supported. Specifically, objects in the system can only be managed on the tenant level or globally.
> >
> > The key use case here is to delegate administration rights for a group of tenants to a specific user/role. There is something in Keystone called a “domain” which supports part of this functionality, but without support from all of the projects, this concept is pretty useless.
> >
> > In IRC today I had a brief discussion about how we could address this. I have put some details and a straw man up here:
> >
> > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HierarchicalMultitenancy
> >
> > I would like to discuss this strawman and organize a group of people to get actual work done by having an irc meeting this Friday at 1600UTC. I know this time is probably a bit tough for Europe, so if we decide we need a regular meeting to discuss progress then we can vote on a better time for this meeting.
> >
> > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings#Hierarchical_Multitenancy_Meeting
> >
> > Please note that this is going to be an active team that produces code. We will *NOT* spend a lot of time debating approaches, and instead focus on making something that works and learning as we go. The output of this team will be a MultiTenant devstack install that actually works, so that we can ensure the features we are adding to each project work together.
> >
> > Vish
> >
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