[openstack-dev] Server groups specified by name

Russell Bryant rbryant at redhat.com
Mon Jul 7 18:44:00 UTC 2014


On 07/07/2014 02:35 PM, Day, Phil wrote:
> Hi Folks,
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> I noticed a couple of changes that have just merged to allow the server
> group hints to be specified by name (some legacy behavior around
> automatically creating groups).    
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> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/83589/
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> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/86582/
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> But group names aren’t constrained to be unique, and the method called
> to get the group instance_group_obj.InstanceGroup.get_by_name() will
> just return the first group I finds with that name (which could be
> either the legacy group or some new group, in which case the behavior is
> going to be different from the legacy behavior I think ?
> 
>  
> 
> I’m thinking that there may need to be some additional logic here, so
> that group hints passed by name will fail if there is an existing group
> with a policy that isn’t “legacy” – and equally perhaps group creation
> needs to fail if a legacy groups exists with the same name ?

Sounds like a reasonable set of improvements to me.

Thanks,

-- 
Russell Bryant



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