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It would be interesting to have a formal exit inside OpenStack nova at VM creation for this sort of check rather than having to patch the code.

Other scenarios that I've seen is where there is a need to enforce limits as the server name is used for other purposes. Examples are characters in the server name or maximum length.

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gustavo panizzo <gfa> [mailto:gfa at zumbi.com.ar]
> Sent: 02 February 2014 05:27
> To: Craig J; openstack at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] nova unique name generator middleware
> 
> On 02/01/2014 04:19 PM, Craig J wrote:
> 
> 
> > I think the best way to accomplish this is to write a custom piece of
> > paste middleware and plug it into the nova api. I'm planning on
> > basically overriding the name provide by the user with a name that we
> > can guarantee to be unique.
> 
> do you plan to rename the vm in case the name already exists or just abort the creation? i would choose the second
> 
> >
> > So, two questions:
> > 1. Does anyone have a similar piece of middleware they'd care to share?
> i don't i would love to have it, i would share if i have it
> 
> > 2. Are there any reasons this approach won't work? Any better approaches?
> it think it should be done at tenant level, my use case is i want to restrict vm names depending on the tenant them are in
> 
> example:
> 
> tenant foo, vm names allowes
> 
> foo-mysql-n
> foo-apache-n
> 
> tenant bar
> 
> foo-mongodb-n
> foo-nginx
> 
> this help a lot with orchestration, we are doing it manually now but i would like to enforce it
> 
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Craig
> >
> >
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