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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's not really a Glance thing, but a Swift thing, though. You'd have
to talk to the Swift guys about removing Rackspace-specific stuff from
the Swift client class, which is what Glance needs the configuration
option for...

-jay

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thx Jay,
>
> Interesting.
>
> Should that eventually be removed from the config?
>
> Seems odd to have those type of settings in there.
>
> Maybe rackspace can append to that file with there rackspace specific
> settings? Or something along that line.
>
> I would just feel the same if yahoo put stuff in there, that said don’t turn
> on unless you are yahoo.
>
> -Josh
>
>
> On 1/25/12 3:18 PM, "Jay Pipes" <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Heyo. The ServiceNET feature is Rackspace specific because Swift
> originated as Cloud Files of course.
>
> That setting does absolutely nothing unless you are Rackspace, of
> course, but there wasn't any other way of passing the configuration
> setting to the swift client from the glance swift driver without
> putting it in the main config file.
>
> Hope that helps. You can effectively ignore it.
>
> Cheers!
> -jay
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> When working on the newer devstack.
>>
>> I am seeing the following in glance configuration.
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/cloudbuilders/devstack/blob/master/files/glance-api.conf#L85
>>
>> # Whether to use ServiceNET to communicate with the Swift storage servers.
>> # (If you aren't RACKSPACE, leave this False!)
>> #
>> # To use ServiceNET for authentication, prefix hostname of
>> # `swift_store_auth_address` with 'snet-'.
>> # Ex. https://example.com/v1.0/ -> https://snet-example.com/v1.0/
>> swift_enable_snet = False
>>
>> What is up with that?
>>
>> Should rackspace specifics be there at all? I’m confused as to how that
>> got
>> there in the first place.
>>
>> ?
>>
>> -Josh
>>
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