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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think you are confusing the EC2 admin API with what Sandy was
talking about, which is the OpenStack admin API commands, which has
been in Nova for months now. See /nova/api/openstack/__init__.py,
lines 74 through 81.

-jay

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Devin Carlen <devin.carlen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Only place for it to go now is the ec2 admin extension api (nova/api/ec2/admin.py).
>
> Until we get the OpenStack API out in the open, we can't add anything to it.
>
> The goal is to move the admin functions to the OpenStack API when that becomes an option, but I'm guessing that won't be until diablo.
>
> On Feb 8, 2011, at 4:54 PM, Jay Pipes wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Sandy Walsh <sandy.walsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Quick question ...
>>> For multi-cluster/zones I have a bunch of commands that need to be exposed
>>> to administrators:
>>> 1. CRUD child zones
>>> 2. CRUD hosts to a zone
>>> 3. CRUD zone & host capabilities to a zone
>>> Do you think these belong in the admin-only OpenStack API or only available
>>> via nova-manage?
>>
>> Admin-only OpenStack API, since they won't have anything to do with
>> EC2 API, and at this point, nova-manage is very EC2-centric, and
>> adding it to nova-manage could potentially be extremely confusing.
>>
>> Since this functionality is mostly going to be used by service
>> providers, most of which have their own set of custom management tools
>> (see: python-novatools, etc..), I think it's best to stick it only in
>> the admin API for now.
>>
>> My 1.5 cents,
>> -jay
>>
>>> Perhaps just the (R)ead operations are available via the API and CUD via
>>> nova-manage?
>>> Opinions?
>>> -Sandy
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