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On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Kyle Mestery <mestery at mestery.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
Yes. Right put. This is for service plugins and its part of extensions than
core network 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.
>
Currently, an admin will be able to assign particular flavors,
unfortunately, this is not going to be tenant specific flavors. As you
might have seen in the review, we are just using tenant_id to bypass the
keystone checks implemented in base.py and it is not stored in the db as
well. It is something to do in the future and documented the same in the
blueprint.

>
>
>> 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.
>
+1

>
>
>> Thanks,
>>     Neil
>>
>>
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