[openstack-dev] [all] tenant vs. project
Brant Knudson
blk at acm.org
Fri Feb 12 14:52:43 UTC 2016
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:
> 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
>
>
Proposed the change to keystone here:
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/279576/
As an excuse for not supporting this earlier, the replacement of
$(tenant_id)s, $(user_id)s, etc., in the service catalog is considered a
legacy feature so this has been neglected.
- Brant
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