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Does Oslo provide a consistent hashing library?

I think a number of projects (swift [1] and ironic [2] for example)
are using various implementations and Octavia may need to start using
consistent hashing soon.

[1] http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/ring.html
[2] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ironic/+spec/instance-mapping-by-consistent-hash

Michael

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja at fastmail.com> wrote:
> Howday all,
>
> Just to start some conversation for the next cycle,
>
> I wanted to start thinking about what folks may like to see in oslo (or yes,
> even what u dislike in any of the oslo libraries).
>
> For those who don't know, oslo[1] is a lot of libraries (27+) so one of my
> complaints (and one I will try to help make better) is that most people
> probably don't know what the different 'offerings' of these libraries are or
> how to use them (docs, tutorials, docs, and more docs).
>
> I'll pick another pet-peeve of mine as a second one to get people thinking.
>
> 2) The lack of oslo.messaging having a good security scheme (even something
> basic as a hmac or signature that can be verified, this scares the heck out
> of me what is possible over RPC) turned on by default so I'd like to start
> figuring out how to get *something* (basic == HMAC signature, or maybe
> advanced == barbican or ???)
>
> What other thoughts do people have?
>
> Good, bad, crazy (just keep it PG-13) thoughts are ok ;)
>
> -Josh
>
> [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Oslo
>
>
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