[Openstack] OpenStack API v1.0 Removal from Nova

George Reese george.reese at enstratus.com
Wed Oct 12 13:56:11 UTC 2011


From my perspective, the 1.0 API was unusable. Prior to 1.1, everyone I knew of was universally using the EC2 API. If I thought for a second someone was actually using the 1.0 API, I would not have been silent on this thread given my "support forever" stance :)

-George

On Oct 12, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Gabe Westmaas wrote:

> I definitely get why developers working on the code base are in favor of
> this, especially for reasons 3 and 4 below.  However, there are a couple
> of reasons that it might make sense to keep it, and I'd really like to
> hear from a different demographic, if at all possible.
> 
> First, I'd like to hear from anyone that has nova deployed, whether its
> public or private.  Are you using the 1.0 API?  I know its not complete,
> but you can definitely use it to do all the basics.  I can say Rackspace
> is not, but we may not be the typical case.
> 
> The second thing to consider is something that Monty pointed out at the
> summit - the jenkins job that has thus far been the most successful at
> detecting functional issues in trunk is the VPC job, which exercises the
> code using ec2 and OS API 1.0.  I think the fix here is pretty straight
> forward - update ruby bindings to support 1.1, and move tests to using
> 1.1.  Note this won't be perfect as 1.1 still has a couple of changes to
> make - but we can keep that up to date.  I think my team can handle that,
> I'd just rather this not go in until that is handled (hopefully this
> week).  I also get that we have a large suite of tests where all these
> things should be combined and run, and I fully support that. However, as
> we all know there is an element of trust that must be built up in any
> functional test suite and I don't think we are there on
> openstack-integration-tests just yet, although I look forward to helping
> to make sure that happens.
> 
> 
> I definitely get the pain that it is causing in development, just want to
> make sure we aren't driving away users of nova with this.
> 
> Gabe
> 
> On 10/11/11 7:49 PM, "Chris Behrens" <chris.behrens at RACKSPACE.COM> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> +3
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 11, 2011, at 1:59 PM, Brian Waldon <brian.waldon at rackspace.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I would like to propose we remove our implementation of OSAPI v1.0 from
>>> Nova for the following reasons:
>>> 
>>> 1) Our implementation is incomplete, and there are no (visible) plans
>>> to complete it. Shared IP Groups and Backup Schedules have been
>>> unimplemented since I started on the project.
>>> 
>>> 2) The v1.1 spec is not backwards-compatible with v1.0. I would like
>>> minor versions to be backwards compatible as we move forward, so I see
>>> v1.0 as something we need to just get rid of.
>>> 
>>> 3) As we are trying to complete the v1.1 implementation, we are running
>>> into problems created by having to support v1.0 (specifically image and
>>> server uuids).
>>> 
>>> 4) Our implementation of v1.0 and v1.1 within the same modules have
>>> caused us to compromise code quality. Working on the controllers
>>> (specifically servers) is a royal pain.
>>> 
>>> I've already done the work of removing v1.0 from the code, and here's
>>> the review of my branch: https://review.openstack.org/840. I think it
>>> makes a lot of sense for the community to focus on making our v1.1
>>> implementation solid, rather than constantly worrying about how we are
>>> affecting v1.0. If this is something we don't want to do, I would love
>>> to hear why :)
>>> 
>>> Waldon
>>> 
>>> 
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