Open Stack

Monty Taylor wrote:
> [...]
> What if we added support for serving vendor data files from the root of 
> a primary URL as-per RFC 5785. Specifically, support deployers adding a 
> json file to .well-known/openstack/client that would contain what we 
> currently store in the openstacksdk repo and were just discussing 
> splitting out.
> [...]
> What do people think?

I love the idea of public clouds serving that file directly, and the 
user experience you get from it. The only two drawbacks on top of my 
head would be:

- it's harder to discover available compliant openstack clouds from the 
client.

- there is no vetting process, so there may be failures with weird 
clouds serving half-baked files that people may blame the client tooling 
for.

I still think it's a good idea, as in theory it aligns the incentive of 
maintaining the file with the most interested stakeholder. It just might 
need some extra communication to work seamlessly.

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)