[Openstack] Returning the project for resources in the EC2 API

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 23:56:00 UTC 2011


I have a feeling that authn/authz will try to make this more
consistent, but that won't be landing until after Cactus.

-jay

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Ryan Lane <rlane at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> This is in regards to lp732924.
>
> There currently isn't any simple way to know which resources are in
> which project. Most resources return the project via some attribute:
>
> * Instances: ownerId
> * Addresses: instanceId
> * Security Groups: ownerId
>
> Volumes return an owner via status, but it's the user, not the project.
>
> This makes it difficult to handle things in frontends, as certain
> queries may return resources from multiple projects.
>
> Is there any way that we can add this information to the EC2 API in a
> somewhat consistent way (such as via a new attribute)? If not, is it
> at least possible for all the resources to return the project in some
> way I can parse out in a dirty hackish way (like using status in
> volumes)?
>
> Filters would help out here, in that I could specifically search for a
> project; however, from a performance perspective, I'd like to be able
> to search for project x, y, and z, then filter accordingly in the
> frontend when necessary as well.
>
> - Ryan Lane
>
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