Timur Sufiev <[email protected]> wrote on 07/08/2015 07:50:49 AM: > From: Timur Sufiev <[email protected]> > To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" > <[email protected]> > Date: 07/08/2015 07:53 AM > Subject: [openstack-dev] [horizon] [keystone] [docs] Two kinds of > 'region' entity: finding better names for them > > Hello, folks! > > Somehow it happened that we have 2 different kinds of regions: the > service regions inside Keystone catalog and AVAILABLE_REGIONS > setting inside Horizon, yet use the same name 'regions' for both of > them. That creates a lot of confusion when solving some region- > related issues at the Horizon/Keystone junction, even explaining > what is exactly being broken poses a serious challenge when our > common language has such a flaw! > > I propose to invent 2 distinct terms for these entities, so at least > we won't be terminologically challenged when fixing the related bugs. > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
Hey Timur, thanks for starting this discussion! I just had some confusion over this within the last few weeks as well. I think that Horizon's use of regions to reference service regions in the keystone catalog is the "correct" usage and the one we should maintain. AVAILABLE_REGIONS is a Horizon setting that lets you configure multiple independent keystone endpoints to be known to Horizon. http://docs.openstack.org/developer/horizon/topics/settings.html I don't think that's the usual meaning of "Region" in OpenStack, but Horizon has labelled both the service catalog and multiple keystone related widgets in the UI as "Regions". I guess we just hope people don't enable both, or can guess the meaning from the values. Doug __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
