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[Ryan Lane <rlane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I haven't been thinking about quotas, so bear with me here. A few thoughts:
>
> Certain deployments might not be able to touch the LDAP backend.  I am
> thinking specifically where there is a corporate AD/LDAP server.  I tried to
> keep the scheme dependency simple enough that it could be layered onto a
> read-only scenario.  If we put quotas into LDAP,  it might break on those
> deployments.
>

Many, many deployments won't be able to. Applications should generally
assume they are read-only in regards to LDAP.

> I can see that we don't want to define them in the Nova database, as Swift
> might not have access to that, and swift is going to be one of the primary
> consumers of Quotas.  I am Assuming Quantum will have them as well.
>
> As you are aware, there is no metadata storage in the LDAP driver, instead
> it is generated from the tenant and role information on the fly.  There is
> no place to store metadata in "groupOfNames" which is the lowest( common
> denominator) grouping used for Tenants.  Probably the most correct thing to
> do would be to use a "seeAlso"  that points to where the quota data is
> stored.
>

Let's try not to force things into attributes if possible.

When LDAP is used, is the SQL backend not used at all? Why not store
quota info in Keystone's SQL backend, but pull user info from LDAP,
when enabled?

We should only consider storing something in LDAP if it's going to be
reused by other applications. LDAP has a strict schema for exactly
this purpose. If the quota information isn't directly usable by other
applications we shouldn't store it in LDAP.

Many applications with an LDAP backend also have an SQL backend, and
use the SQL as primary storage for most things, and as a cache for
LDAP, if it's used. I think this is likely a sane approach here, as
well.

- Ryan