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I have dealt with the confusion caused by this issue on multiple 
occasions and would love to see AVAILABLE_REGIONS changed to something 
like AVAILABLE_KEYSTONE_ENDPOINTS which would be much clearer.

Justin

On 7/8/2015 8:10 AM, Douglas Fish wrote:
> Timur Sufiev <tsufiev at mirantis.com> wrote on 07/08/2015 07:50:49 AM:
>
>> From: Timur Sufiev <tsufiev at mirantis.com>
>> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)"
>> <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
>> Date: 07/08/2015 07:53 AM
>> Subject: [openstack-dev] [horizon] [keystone] [docs] Two kinds of
>> 'region' entity: finding better names for them
>>
>> Hello, folks!
>>
>> Somehow it happened that we have 2 different kinds of regions: the
>> service regions inside Keystone catalog and AVAILABLE_REGIONS
>> setting inside Horizon, yet use the same name 'regions' for both of
>> them. That creates a lot of confusion when solving some region-
>> related issues at the Horizon/Keystone junction, even explaining
>> what is exactly being broken poses a serious challenge when our
>> common language has such a flaw!
>>
>> I propose to invent 2 distinct terms for these entities, so at least
>> we won't be terminologically challenged when fixing the related bugs.
>>
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> Hey Timur, thanks for starting this discussion!
>
> I just had some confusion over this within the last few weeks as well. I
> think that Horizon's use of regions to reference service regions in the
> keystone catalog is the "correct" usage and the one we should maintain.
>
> AVAILABLE_REGIONS is a Horizon setting that lets you configure multiple
> independent keystone endpoints to be known to Horizon.
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/horizon/topics/settings.html
> I don't think that's the usual meaning of "Region" in OpenStack, but
> Horizon has labelled both the service catalog and multiple keystone related
> widgets in the UI as "Regions". I guess we just hope people don't enable
> both, or can guess the meaning from the values.
>
> Doug
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