[openstack-dev] [nova][limits] Does ANYONE at all use the quota class functionality in Nova?

melanie witt melwittt at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 20:15:33 UTC 2018


On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:06:38 -0500, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> On 10/25/2018 2:55 PM, Chris Friesen wrote:
>> 2) The main benefit (as I see it) of the quota class API is to allow
>> dynamic adjustment of the default quotas without restarting services.
> 
> I could be making this up, but I want to say back at the Pike PTG people
> were also complaining that not having an API to change this, and only do
> it via config, was not good. But if the keystone limits API solves that
> then it's a non-issue.

Right, the default limits are "registered limits" [1] in the keystone 
API. And "project limits" can be set to override "registered limits".

So the keystone limits API does solve that case.

-melanie

[1] 
https://docs.openstack.org/keystone/latest/admin/identity-unified-limits.html#registered-limits








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