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On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 04:09:07PM -0700, Dan Smith wrote:
> > Conductors will always need to talk to the database. APIs may not need
> > to talk to the database. I think we can just roll conductor
> > upgrades through, and then update ironic-api after that. This should
> > just work, as long as we're very careful about schema changes (this is
> > where the expand/contract thing comes into play). Different versions of
> > conductors are only a problem if the database schema is not compatible
> > with one of the versions.
> 
> Yep, this seems like it's probably the right approach, assuming that
> your API depending on RPC is still reasonable, performance-wise. It
> might be confusing for people to hear that ironic's conductor goes last,
> but nova's goes first. In reality, it was probably not a great idea to
> have these named the same thing as they're not very similar, but oh well.

Sorry, if it wasn't clear, I said conductor should go first here, and
then API...

// jim