On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Florent Flament < [email protected]> wrote:
> I understand that not everyone may be interested in such feature. > > On the other hand, some (maybe shallow) Openstack users may be > interested in setting quotas on users or projects. Also, this feature > wouldn't do any harm to the other users who wouldn't use it. > The "harm" comes in the form of time spent in code review, documentation, testing/infra, long term maintenance, summit bandwidth, vulnerability management, etc, leveraged upon the rest of the community. > > If some contributors are willing to spend some time in adding this > feature to Openstack, is there any reason not to accept it ? > > On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 14:55 -0600, Dolph Mathews wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Florent Flament > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > Although it is true that projects and users don't consume a > > lot of resources, I think that there may be cases where > > setting quotas (possibly large) may be useful. > > > > > > > > For instance, a cloud provider may wish to prevent domain > > administrators to mistakingly create an infinite number of > > users and/or projects, by calling APIs in a bugging loop. > > > > > > > > That sounds like it would be better solved by API rate limiting, not > > quotas. > > > > > > > > > > Moreover, if quotas can be disabled, I don't see any reason > > not to allow cloud operators to set quotas on users and/or > > projects if they wishes to do so for whatever marketing reason > > (e.g. charging more to allow more users or projects). > > > > > > > > That's the shallow business decision I was alluding to, which I don't > > think we have any reason to support in-tree. > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Florent Flament > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > From: "Dolph Mathews" <[email protected]> > > To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage > > questions)" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 3:09:51 PM > > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Keystone] bp proposal: quotas on > > users and projects per domain > > > > > > > > ... why? It strikes me as a rather shallow business decision > > to limit the number of users or projects in a system, as > > neither are actually cost-consuming resources. > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Matthieu Huin > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'd be interested in opinions and feedback on the > > following blueprint: > > > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/keystone/+spec/tenants-users-quotas > > > > The idea is to add a mechanism preventing the creation > > of users or projects once a quota per domain is met. I > > believe this could be interesting for cloud providers > > who delegate administrative rights under domains to > > their customers. > > > > I'd like to hear the community's thoughts on this, > > especially in terms of viability. > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Matthieu Huin > > > > [email protected] > > http://www.enovance.com > > eNovance SaS - 10 rue de la Victoire 75009 Paris - > > France > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenStack-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenStack-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenStack-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenStack-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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