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ASF GitHub Bot commented on CLOUDSTACK-9003:
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Github user ProjectMoon commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/988#issuecomment-198274020
Closing this as we have finally finished our "real" implementation of this,
though it's far beyond the scope of this PR. At some point in the near future
we will submit a PR with a full refactoring of how resources are named.
> Make VM naming services injectable and in their own module
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: CLOUDSTACK-9003
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-9003
> Project: CloudStack
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Security Level: Public(Anyone can view this level - this is the
> default.)
> Reporter: Jeffrey Hair
> Priority: Minor
>
> Proposal: Make the various classes/code that give VMs and other resources
> hostnames, hypervisor guest names, and UUIDs into their classes as injectable
> dependencies in their own module under the core or backend module.
> This proposal originally only concerned the VirtualMachineName class and can
> be broken down into several parts:
> * Make the VirtualMachineName class an injectable dependency instead of being
> full of static methods.
> * Refactor the generateHostName method in UserVmManagerImpl to be backed by
> an injectable service which generates host names.
> * Move the UUIDManagerImpl from the core module to a new module (grouped with
> the other 2 ideally).
> Rationale:
> * VirtualMachineName is one of the few remaining classes that has static
> methods tangled like spaghetti throughout the code. This change will put it
> in line with the rest of the management server codebase and opens the door to
> extensibility. Which brings us to...
> * Extensibility: The ultimate goal of this feature is to provide 3rd party
> developers the option of changing default instance/resource naming policies.
> Currently this is possible in a very limited fashion with the instance.name
> global setting, but this proposal makes it much more extensible.
> By moving the naming-related services (VirtualMachineName, UUIDManager, and
> more as added/discovered) to their own module, the module can be excluded by
> modules.properties and different ones substituted in. Alternatively, it could
> use the adapter model that other classes use, and the user can configure
> which adapters are active and also provide custom ones.
> A good use case for this functionality is using a different style naming to
> emulate other cloud providers such as AWS (i-abc123) or GCE.
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