Open Stack

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> Aryeh, to your point, OpenStack effectively _is_, the provisioning system.
> Our current use case is providing engineers with a self service portal for
> spinning up VMs on which they can do development work. So, the workflow is
> user -> UI -> nova API. But when a VM is spun up, we still want to
> integrate with existing systems such as Active Directory (via
> PBIS/Likewise). Long term, we have grander plans for making OpenStack the
> provisioning system for our integration and production environments and
> we'll probably need to build more ellaborate smarts into it.
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One solution might (I have not verified if instance UUID's are guarnteed to
be globally unique) is base the name on the UUID (depending on how much of
a "gibberish" name your users would tolerate)

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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
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