On 06/15/2013 05:25 AM, Justin B Rye wrote: > Thomas Goirand wrote: >> In OpenStack, a tenant is a synonym of a project. I don't think it was a >> rename, I saw both. For example, the OpenStack dashboard (Horizon) shows >> "projects" and not "tenants" in the admin interface: >> http://www.openstack.org/themes/openstack/images/essex/project-users.jpg >> >> Or this one too: >> http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/figures/1/figures/horizon-screenshot.jpg >> >> I'm cc-ing the OpenStack list just in case I'm wrong. :) > > I was going by phrases like: > > # Note: Earlier versions of OpenStack used the term "project" instead > # of "tenant". Because of this legacy terminology, some command-line > # tools use --project_id when a tenant ID is expected. > > (http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/content/users-and-projects.html) > > but if it isn't obviously a good idea then we should probably avoid > complicating things with alternative names. > > (I'm a bit baffled by this choice of term, though. Why would a > "resource container" occupied by users, keys, etc. be called a > "tenant"? It seems backwards; wouldn't it make more sense if the > individual resources doing the occupying were thought of as "tenants" > and the container was called a "leasehold" or "domicile" or whatever? > I hope the person who coined the term wasn't confusing "tenants" with > "tenements" or "tenure" or something...)
Thanks for pointing to the right documentation Justin. I really didn't expect you would teach me something about OpenStack! :) So indeed, we probably should write "(previously known as project)" or something similar. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
