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Am 24.05.2012 20:43 schrieb "Lorin Hochstein" <lorin at nimbisservices.com>:
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> On May 24, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Christian Parpart wrote:
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>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Christian Parpart <trapni at gmail.com>
wrote:
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>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I am wondering how these two terms are related with each other.
>>> I now know, that both terms are (kind of) interchangeable, however,
>>> I wonder why then we have two database tables (keystone.tenants
>>> and nova.projects) for the same thing, or, I have to actively populate
>>> the latter to make actual use of it from within the dashboard / nova.
>>>
>>> Can anyone please fix my misinterpretion, or clarify, why I (as an
admin)
>>> need to explicitly invoke `nova-manage project create .... && ... add
..."?
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>> nobody?
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>> I still can't distinguish here, even though I am working with OpenStack
for quite a few weeks now :-(
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Christian.
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> It's a legacy thing. The initial implementation of nova (before keystone)
implemented its own authorization and had "projects". When keystone was
implemented it called these "tenants" instead, and nobody ever went through
the nova code and did a search and replace.
[...]

Hey, many thanks for this clarificarion. :-)

Can you please give me an advice on how to handly rhis situation for the
time being?
Does nova play nicely and know what i mean unless i create the record on
both tables, or how should i handle it in essex?

Many thanks,
Christian.
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