[openstack-dev] [all] tenant vs. project

Sean Dague sean at dague.net
Fri Feb 12 13:42:16 UTC 2016


On 02/12/2016 08:30 AM, Dean Troyer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net
> <mailto:sean at dague.net>> wrote:
> 
>     OpenStack is wildly inconsistent in it's use of tenant vs. project. As
>     someone that wasn't here at the beginning, I'm not even sure which one
>     we are supposed to be transitioning from -> to.
> 
>     At a minimum I'd like to make all of devstack use 1 term, which is the
>     term we're trying to get to. That will help move the needle.
> 
>     However, again, I'm not sure which one that is supposed to be (comments
>     in various places show movement in both directions). So people with
>     deeper knowledge here, can you speak up as to which is the deprecated
>     term and which is the term moving forward.
> 
> 
> IIRC Nova started with project, until the marriage with Rax, when many
> things changed, although the project -> tenant change may have never
> been completed.  Keystone v3 started the movement back to project. 
> OpenStackClient made the commitment from the beginning to present
> exactly one term to the user in all cases, and we chose project.
> 
> I've thought about making that change in DevStack many times, and would
> love to see it happen.  Somehow it never gets to the top of the queue. 
> And now in a plugin world, it'll be a bit harder to maintain compatibility.

Hmmm... one issue with that:

keystone only supports tenant_id in their service catalog for
replacement, not project_id - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/279523/.

Keystone folks, any idea if that's going to be adjusted?

	-Sean

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