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On 10 April 2017 at 01:56, Matt Riedemann <mriedemos at gmail.com> wrote:
> I found a fun little legacy nugget of compute API non-interoperability joy
> tonight.
>
> The "allow_instance_snapshots" config option disables the createImage server
> action API. Completely config driven and therefore not discoverable.
>
> What intrigues me is that this isn't applied to the createBackup or shelve
> APIs, which also create a snapshot of the instance. Is this by design? I'm
> guessing probably not. In fact, this predates the use of Gerrit [1] so this
> was probably just something hacked in so long ago it makes zero sense now.
> The way to disable any of these APIs now is via policy.
>
> Unless anyone has an issue with this, I'm going to deprecate it for removal.
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/openstack/nova/commit/9633e9877c7836c18c30b51c8494abfb025e64ca

+1 for deprecate it.

That looks like something we did before we had policy.
Not that policy is that discoverable yet either, but it seems better.

Thanks,
john