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On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Neil Jerram <Neil.Jerram at metaswitch.com>
wrote:

> I've been reading available docs about the forthcoming Neutron flavors
> framework, and am not yet sure I understand what it means for a network.
>
>
In reality, this is envisioned more for service plugins (e.g. flavors of
LBaaS, VPNaaS, and FWaaS) than core neutron resources.


> Is it a way for an admin to provide a particular kind of network, and then
> for a tenant to know what they're attaching their VMs to?
>
>
I'll defer to Madhu who is implementing this, but I don't believe that's
the intention at all.


> How does it differ from provider:network-type?  (I guess, because the
> latter is supposed to be for implementation consumption only - but is that
> correct?)
>
>
Flavors are created and curated by operators, and consumed by API users.


> Thanks,
>     Neil
>
>
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