I’m very surprised to be the only one with this need 8) So I write a blueprint. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/limit-spawn-rate-for-users https://review.openstack.org/#/c/221375/ — Jean-Daniel @pilgrimstack > Le 7 sept. 2015 à 16:48, Jean-Daniel Bonnetot <jean-daniel.bonnetot at ovh.net> a écrit : > > Hi, > > I try to limit the max instances a user can create per minute. > > With rate limit, we can limit the number of call/min on POST */servers for example. > But the user can still use the max_count paramteter in his API call to boot dozen of thousand of instances and make the scheduler crazy. > > I’m pretty sure that there is a possiblity to limit the max_count and so define a max instances/min. > Do you know something to do it? > > -- > Jean-Daniel > @pilgrimstack > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > OpenStack-operators at lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators