[openstack-dev] [Openstack-operators] [all] Consistent policy names

Lance Bragstad lbragstad at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 14:46:36 UTC 2018


On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 5:46 PM Michael Johnson <johnsomor at gmail.com> wrote:

> In Octavia I selected[0] "os_load-balancer_api:loadbalancer:post"
> which maps to the "os-<service-type>-api:<resource>:<method>" format.
>

Thanks for explaining the justification, Michael.

I'm curious if anyone has context on the "os-" part of the format? I've
seen that pattern in a couple different projects. Does anyone know about
its origin? Was it something we converted to our policy names because of
API names/paths?


>
> I selected it as it uses the service-type[1], references the API
> resource, and then the method. So it maps well to the API reference[2]
> for the service.
>
> [0] https://docs.openstack.org/octavia/latest/configuration/policy.html
> [1] https://service-types.openstack.org/
> [2]
> https://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/load-balancer/v2/index.html#create-a-load-balancer
>
> Michael
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 12:52 PM Tim Bell <Tim.Bell at cern.ch> wrote:
> >
> > So +1
> >
> >
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Lance Bragstad <lbragstad at gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)"
> <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> > Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2018 at 20:43
> > To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <
> openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>, OpenStack Operators <
> openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org>
> > Subject: [openstack-dev] [all] Consistent policy names
> >
> >
> >
> > The topic of having consistent policy names has popped up a few times
> this week. Ultimately, if we are to move forward with this, we'll need a
> convention. To help with that a little bit I started an etherpad [0] that
> includes links to policy references, basic conventions *within* that
> service, and some examples of each. I got through quite a few projects this
> morning, but there are still a couple left.
> >
> >
> >
> > The idea is to look at what we do today and see what conventions we can
> come up with to move towards, which should also help us determine how much
> each convention is going to impact services (e.g. picking a convention that
> will cause 70% of services to rename policies).
> >
> >
> >
> > Please have a look and we can discuss conventions in this thread. If we
> come to agreement, I'll start working on some documentation in oslo.policy
> so that it's somewhat official because starting to renaming policies.
> >
> >
> >
> > [0] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/consistent-policy-names
> >
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