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Hi!

I have a question regarding usage of UUIDs and names in the tempest.conf file. Are there some common ideas/reasons (except unambiguousness and making test cases simpler) why some parameters (e.g. public_network_id, flavor_ref, image_ref, ...) are designed so that they require entity UUIDs but others (e.g. fixed_network_name, floating_network_name, ...) require entity names?

Currently I use shell scripts for creating images and flavors with some predefined ID (like 01010101-0101-0101-0101-010101010101) just to avoid updating of the related parameters into configuration file every time when some new environment is taken into use. The problem here is that e.g. image ID cannot be reused after deleting the image (unless the data is removed directly from database) and flavors cannot be updated without changing their ID.

-VT

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