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[Devin Carlen <devin.carlen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yep, you're right. I misread.  There is still a longer conversation to be had about admin API in general.  All the functions in the ec2 admin api will need to be available in the openstack admin api at some point.

On Feb 8, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Jay Pipes wrote:

> 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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