[Openstack] Bulk operations support plan

Adam Young ayoung at redhat.com
Thu Apr 16 02:05:47 UTC 2015


On 04/15/2015 03:57 PM, Ivan Krutov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’m using Openstack almost every day and my activities frequently 
> require doing bulk operations, e.g. launching dozens and hundreds of 
> VMs, terminating and restarting them, creating snapshots and so on. 
> Some of such operations (e.g. bulk terminate) can already be done from 
> Openstack dashboard. However most operations that I need are not 
> accessible in bulk mode. My question would be: do recent versions of 
> Openstack API support in any form bulk operations described above? Do 
> you have any plans for the nearest future to improve bulk operations 
> support in respective APIs, in the command line tools such as nova or 
> glance or in the Horizon dashboard?
>
> Best regards,
> Ivan.
>
>
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I don't think there is a norm yet for doing batch/bulk with REST, 
although there have been a few attempts.

We did something like this with JSON RPC in the past and it was very useful.

Probably should be part of the API discussion at the summit.
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