[openstack-dev] [neutron] PTL candidacy
Thierry Carrez
thierry at openstack.org
Wed Jan 25 10:19:48 UTC 2017
Kevin Benton wrote:
> [...]
> The Neutron API is already very extensible and that's problematic. Right
> now a vendor can write an out-of-tree service plugin or driver that adds
> arbitrary fields and endpoints to the API that results in whatever
> behavior they want. This is great for vendors because they can directly
> expose features without having to make them vendor agnostic. However,
> it's terrible for operators because it leads to lock-in and terrible for
> the users because it leads to cross-cloud compatibility issues.
+1000 on this being a major problem in Neutron. Happy to see that you
want to work on trying to reduce it.
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Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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