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On 2015-08-27 1:23 PM, Tim Bell wrote:
> 
> Some project such as cinder include a detailed description option where
> you can include an arbitrary string with a volume to remind the admins
> what the volume is used for.
> 
> Has anyone looked at doing something similar for Nova for instances and
> Glance for images ?
> 
> In many cases, the names get heavily overloaded with information.
> 

I like this idea. +1

We are currently abusing the metadata fields to manage description/alias
for our custom UI instead of the hostname field since people like to put
free text. We looked into using the description field but there was no
way to update it through the API, AFAIK.

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Mathieu