[openstack-dev] [magnum][osc] What name to use for magnum commands in osc?
Adrian Otto
adrian.otto at rackspace.com
Mon Mar 20 21:36:00 UTC 2017
Dean,
Thanks for your reply.
> On Mar 20, 2017, at 2:18 PM, Dean Troyer <dtroyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Adrian Otto <adrian.otto at rackspace.com> wrote:
>> the <command> argument is actually the service name, such as “ec2”. This is the same way the openstack cli works. Perhaps there is another tool that you are referring to. Have I misunderstood something?
>
> I am going to jump in here and clarify one thing. OSC does not do
> project namespacing, or any other sort of namespacing for its resource
> names. It uses qualified resource names (fully-qualified even?). In
> some cases this results in something that looks a lot like
> namespacing, but it isn't. The Volume API commands are one example of
> this, nearly every resource there includes the word 'volume' but not
> because that is the API name, it is because that is the correct name
> for those resources ('volume backup', etc).
Okay, that makes sense, thanks.
>> We could so the same thing and use the text “container_infra”, but we felt that might be burdensome for interactive use and wanted to find something shorter that would still make sense.
>
> Naming resources is hard to get right. Here's my throught process:
>
> For OSC, start with how to describe the specific 'thing' being
> manipulated. In this case, it is some kind of cluster. In the list
> you posted in the first email, 'coe cluster' seems to be the best
> option. I think 'coe' is acceptable as an abbreviation (we usually do
> not use them) because that is a specific term used in the field and
> satisfies the 'what kind of cluster?' question. No underscores
> please, and in fact no dash here, resource names have spaces in them.
So, to be clear, this would result in the following command for what we currently use “magnum cluster create” for:
openstack coe cluster create …
Is this right?
Adrian
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> dt
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> Dean Troyer
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