[openstack-dev] [nova][osc] Use of openstack client for admin commands

Matt Riedemann mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed May 4 18:16:48 UTC 2016


On 5/4/2016 12:08 PM, Chris Dent wrote:
>
> The plans for generic resource pools[1] include a suite of new
> commands for creating and updating resource pools. In today's Nova
> API meeting[2] and afterwards in #openstack-nova[3] we discussed two
> issues:
>
> * Since the placement API associated with resource pools is eventually
>   going to be hoisted out of nova it will be developed in a decoupled
>   fashion within the nova tree. It makes sense to also hoist the client
>   libraries in the same fashion. The canonical plan for CLIs is to
>   plug in to OSC.
>
> * There's some confusion on whether commands that are destined for
>   admins and services but not end users are "supposed" to be in OSC.
>
> Since then the spec has been updated to reflect using OSC but the
> question of whether this is in fact the right place for this style
> of commands remains open. Not just for this situation, but
> generally.
>
> Is there an official word on this? If not, should we make one?
>
> Thanks.
>
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/300176/
> [2]
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/nova_api/2016/nova_api.2016-05-04-13.00.log.html#l-205
>
> [3] http://p.anticdent.org/xWd
>
>
>
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FWIW this was the design summit session etherpad [1] but it doesn't 
mention anything about admin-only CLIs.

[1] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/state-of-osc-plugins

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann




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