I believe we have doc tools now that would enable a shared glossary for all documents. Let me investigate and report back to the list.
Anne On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Tim Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > ** ** > > It would be useful if there was a glossary of terms related to Openstack. > It is easy to get confused as many words are overloaded or slightly > different between different parts of Openstack.**** > > ** ** > > There is also the page on identity at > http://docs.openstack.org/diablo/openstack-identity/admin/content/Identity-Service-Concepts-e1362.htmlwhich > defines some concepts. > **** > > ** ** > > From http://wiki.openstack.org/Glossary, there is a pointer to > http://cloudglossary.com/ but the openstack terms are not in there.**** > > ** ** > > There is also > http://docs.openstack.org/incubation/openstack-network/developer/quantum-api-1.0/content/Glossary.htmlfor > networking. > **** > > ** ** > > Tim**** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Sandy > Walsh > *Sent:* 20 March 2012 12:07 > *To:* Nicolae Paladi; [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] "nova zone" and "availability_zone"**** > > ** ** > > Availability Zone is an EC2 concept. Zones were a sharding scheme for > Nova. Zones are being renamed to Cells to avoid further confusion. > Availability Zones will remain the same. **** > > ** ** > > Hope it helps!**** > > -S**** > ------------------------------ > > *From:* > [email protected][openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh= > [email protected]] on behalf of Nicolae Paladi [ > [email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:55 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [Openstack] "nova zone" and "availability_zone"**** > > Hi all, **** > > ** ** > > What is the difference between "nova zone(s)" and "availability_zone"?**** > > In a new deployment, the *services* table in the nova db contains an > "availability_zone"**** > > column (which is 'nova', but default). **** > > ** ** > > If that is not the same as "nova zones" (which are logical deployments, > as far as I understood), where is information**** > > about zones stored?**** > > ** ** > > The only documentation about "zones" in openstack that I could find is > here:**** > > http://nova.openstack.org/devref/zone.html**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > is there anything on availability zones?**** > > ** ** > > Cheers, **** > > /Nicolae.**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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