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Shouldn't "nova list" and some shell script magic do most of this?  The
only problem would be to make sure that two people didn't ask for a name at
the same time


On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 1:19 AM, Tim Bell <Tim.Bell at cern.ch> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Griffith [mailto:john.griffith at solidfire.com]
> > Sent: 03 February 2014 03:47
> > To: Joel Cooklin
> > Cc: openstack at lists.openstack.org
> > Subject: Re: [Openstack] nova unique name generator middleware
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Joel Cooklin <joel.cooklin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > +1 intel use cases.  It would be nice to avoid our current custom
> patches.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sunday, February 2, 2014, Joshua Harlow <harlowja at yahoo-inc.com>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> +1 yahoo use case(s) would also benefit from not having to patch the
> > >> +code
> > >> to achieve similar results.
> > >>
> > >> Sent from my really tiny device...
> > >>
> > >> > On Feb 2, 2014, at 12:12 AM, "Tim Bell" <Tim.Bell at cern.ch> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > 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
> > >> >
> ...
> > >
> > Maybe just an auto-naming option added to nova's existing boot call; use
> a prefix and the UUID of the instance would satisfy the
> > cases people are talking about here and not impact existing users?
> >
>
> We have a set of other use cases which are around the use of the server
> name to get a Kerberos/X.509 identity which imposes other restrictions on
> the name being chosen (such as maximum length and limited set of
> characters). The unique name is one scenario but there are others.
>
> Thus, we could start adding new options such as "max server name length"
> and "server name character set" or we find a way to do a plugin.
>
> Tim
>
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