[Openstack-devel] OpenStackHowto - Removing confusing terms

[Loic Dachary]

Hi,

You should keep in mind that this Howto is designed to disapear completly. All it contains should be implemented in the debian packages in the weeks to come. That does not mean it should not be improved ;-)

Cheers

On 03/01/2012 02:30 PM, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> wrote:
>> On 03/01/2012 10:01 AM, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
>>> http://wiki.debian.org/OpenStackHowto
>>>
>>> 1. Certain terms are misleading:
>> Why not calling a cat a cat? Just call it nova-api host...
> <nova-api.host> ... hmm... the main obstacle, is that nova-api is
> getting installed on both <mgmt.host> and on <compute.node>.
> This is why I dislike the term <nova-api.host>.
>
> So I recommend:
> <mgmt.host>
>
>>> 2. Distribution :
>>> Debian GNU/Linux squeeze -- simply unsupported.
>> Instead, write that we have currently no backports due to lack of time.
> OK.
>
>>> 3. Too many "admin"s is confusing
>>> Recommendation:
>>> NOVA_PROJECT_ID must be renamed from "admin" to <myproject>. (+all
>>> related links in HOW-TO must be changed)
>>> NOVA_USERNAME must be renamed from "admin" to <nova_admin>
>> Agreed, but you can make it even more obvious by writing: myprojadmin.
> The admin is global, multi-tenant, so <myprojadmin> is still confusing.
> ... i.e. the admin can manage several projects.
> <nova_admin> is also controversial, because this user will manage all
> of O-S components and all projects, not just Nova.
> For this reason the better term would be <openstack_admin>.
>
> More things:
>
>> Also, I again believe that nova-network should be setup *once*, and not
>> multiple times (eg: not once per nova-compute, unless you want to do
>> some kind of HA setup, which I believe is outside of the scope of the
>> wiki page we maintain). Same with nova-api. I believe this is more
>> important than any of the above changes.
> My OpenStack-fu is currently limited to edit this part of our HOW-TO.
> Will the setup work, if we remove "nova-api" from the compute nodes,
> leaving only "nova-compute" ?
> (either I need some more OpenStack experience to edit this, -or- feel
> free to remove those parts yourself)
>
> Also I'd like to add "nova-compute-kvm" to the "compute nodes".
>


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