On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Matt Riedemann <mriede...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm confused by this. Creating a server takes a volume ID if you're booting
> from volume, and that's actually preferred (by nova devs) since then Nova
> doesn't have to orchestrate the creation of the volume in the compute
> service and then poll until it's available.
>
> Same for ports - nova can create the port (default action) or get a port at
> server creation time, which is required if you're doing trunk ports or
> sr-iov / fancy pants ports.
>
> Am I misunderstanding what you're saying is missing?

It turns out those are bad examples, they do accept IDs.

The point though was there _are_ times when what you want is not what
the opinionated composed API gives you (as much as I _do_ like those).
It isn't so much making more REST calls, but a similar number of
different ones that are actually more efficient in the long run.

dt

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Dean Troyer
dtro...@gmail.com

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