[Engine-devel] What type of DB inheritance to use?

[Mike Kolesnik]

----- Original Message -----
> On 05/13/2013 11:05 AM, Mike Kolesnik wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> On 05/13/2013 10:42 AM, Oved Ourfalli wrote:
> >>> IMO, the following fields will fit most providers, at least the ones we
> >>> plan to support in the near future:
> >>> * id
> >>> * name
> >>> * type
> >>> * URL
> >>> * requires_authentication (boolean) to support development/POC/testing...
> >>> mode
> >>
> >> redundant with empty username/password?
> >
> > Empty user/password is an implementation details.
> > Seems logical to me to be explicit about it.
> >
> >>
> >>> * username
> >>> * password
> >>
> >> do keystone based services allow to authenticate directly to them, or
> >> you need an additional authentication url (to get the ticket)?
> >>
> >
> > No, the OpenStack services require a header with the token:
> > "When Keystone is enabled, users that submit requests to the Quantum
> > service must provide an authentication token in X-Auth-Token request
> > header. You obtain the token by authenticating to the Keystone endpoint."
> >
> > http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-network/2.0/content/Authentication-d1e444.html
> >
> 
> so you are missing an 'authentication url' field, although i think there
> was some discussion that until we expect more than a single keystone,
> may be a config
> 

I think at this point it makes sense to keep as config value and in the next phase of
OpenStack providers integration we can model the keystone & tenant entities properly.
I do however, agree with oved, that the username/password should be kept per provider.