[openstack-dev] [nova][glance] Proposal to remove `nova image-*` commands from novaclient

Ian Cordasco sigmavirus24 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 20:05:37 UTC 2016


On Apr 5, 2016 2:49 PM, "Matt Riedemann" <mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> As we discuss the glance v2 spec for nova, questions are coming up around
what to do about the nova images API which is a proxy for glance v1.
>
> I don't want to add glance v2 support to the nova API since that's just
more proxy gorp.
>
> I don't think we can just make the nova images API fail if we're using
glance v2 in the backend, but we'll need some translation later for:
>
> user->nova-images->glance.v2->glance.v1(ish)->user
>
> But we definitely want people to stop using the nova images API.
>
> I think we can start by deprecating the nova images-* commands in
python-novaclient, and probably the python API bindings in novaclient too.
>
> People should be using python-glanceclient or python-openstackclient for
the CLI, and python-glanceclient or some SDK for the python API bindings.
>
> We recently removed the deprecated nova volume-* stuff from novaclient,
this would be the same idea.
>
> Does anyone have an issue with this?

Seems reasonable to me. :)
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