On 16/05/11 18:11, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote:
Hello Everyone,
The PTLs had a quick meeting the other day to try and align some things
between the projects. In order for openstack to be successful, it is very
important that we create a consistent user experience for users and
administrators. We realize that it is hard to find agreement between all
developers on implementation details, so we focused less on the idea of
code-sharing and more on the idea of bringing the user-experience into
alignment. If we are going to be successful in this effort, we all need to
realize that we should value doing things the same way over doing things the
best way.
We have a few actions that we are taking to help move in this direction.
1. Consistent Auth -- all of the projects are working on integrating the
keystone project so that we have one auth system. For nova, this means that we
may lose some of the rbac features we provide for the ec2 api, but by the
diablo release we expect to have equivalent features and a migration plan for
cactus deployments.
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Hi Vish,
This is really useful to know, thank you for the highlevel outline.
I didn't quite understand the "Consistent Auth", and what it means for
ec2 api for the Diablo release. Would you be able to confirm the extent
/ roadmap of the ec2 api breakage expected? Are you expecting the base
ec2 api functionality to be near stable throughout the transition, or
are you expecting large breakage?
In regards to the loss of RBAC, is this expected to be transitional; and
be fixable in time for Diabalo release? Essentially, can you clarify
"equivalent features". The blueprint[0] or specification on the wiki[1]
doesn't seem to mention "ec2' anywhere, can you confirm where this was
discussed?
I'd also like to check if consideration on how this might impact
possible future implementation of comparative feature of AWS Identity
and Access Management (IAM)[2] support in both ec2 and openstack API was
discussed?
Additionally, are the logs of the PTL's meeting available anywhere?
Thanks.
[0] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/integrate-nova-authn
[1] http://wiki.openstack.org/openstack-authn
[2] http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/iam/
Kind Regards,
Dave Walker
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