Remove tenant_id

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/remove-tenant-id

The blueprint proposes to remove the API interface that uses tenant_id and replace it with project_id.

Problem description

Currently, Nova API supports both tenant_id and project_id, which is unfriendly to users.

The following is a confusing question. By default, we support filtering instances by all_tenants (Optional), but through this parameter, we get a list of all instances that they cannot get instances by tenant_id.

We can see from bug 1185290 that when using the nova list command, if tenant_id is required, all_tenants must appear, as description in [1], which is somewhat unintuitive.

Note

[1] mainly said: “As explained in lp:#1185290, if all_tenants is not passed we must ignore the tenant_id search option.”.

We can know from bug 1468992 that many users want to use tenant_id filtering instances, and using the concept of tenants in many of our large-scale customer scenarios, they hope we can filter the expected instances through tenant_id.

Use Cases

As an (admin) user, I would like to use project_id uniformly in nova api, instead of supporting both tenant_id and project_id, this will imporve uniformity within nova and between nova and other service which have already made this change.

Proposed change

Add a new microversion to the request or response parameter changes API.

Remove the tenant_id field, using all_projects replace all_tenants parameter, and then remove``all_tenants`` parameter in the following APIs:

• GET /servers (List Servers)

• GET /servers/detail (List Server Detailed)

Replace tenant_id with project_id in request body in follow APIs:

• GET /limits (Show Rate And Absolute Limits)

• GET /os-quota-sets/{tenant_id} (Show A Quota)

• PUT /os-quota-sets/{tenant_id} (Update Quotas)

• GET /os-quota-sets/{tenant_id}/defaults (List Default Quotas For Tenant)

• GET /os-quota-sets/{tenant_id}/detail (Show The Detail of Quota)

• GET /os-simple-tenant-usage/{tenant_id} (Show Usage Statistics For Tenant)

Replace tenant_id with project_id in response body in follow APIs:

• GET /servers/detail (List Server Detailed)

• GET /servers/{server_id} (List Server Detailed)

• PUT /servers/{server_id} (Update Server)

• POST /servers/{server_id}/action (Rebuild Server (rebuild Action))

• GET /servers/{server_id}/os-security-groups (List Security Groups By Server)

• GET /flavors/{flavor_id}/os-flavor-access (List Flavor Access Information

  For Given Flavor)

• POST /flavors/{flavor_id}/action (Add Flavor Access To Tenant

  (addTenantAccess Action))

• POST /flavors/{flavor_id}/action (Remove Flavor Access From Tenant

  (removeTenantAccess Action))

• GET /os-simple-tenant-usage (List Tenant Usage Statistics For All Tenants)

• GET /os-simple-tenant-usage/{tenant_id} (Show Usage Statistics For Tenant)

The keyword tenant in the path will be replaced with project as below APIs:

• GET /os-simple-tenant-usage APIs will be renamed to GET /os-simple-project-usage

• GET /os-simple-tenant-usage/{tenant_id} APIs will be renamed to GET /os-simple-project-usage/{project_id}

We should block change the tenant_id below the deprecated APIs:

• GET /os-security-groups (List Security Groups)

• GET /os-security-groups/{security_group_id} (Show Security Group Details)

• PUT /os-security-groups/{security_group_id} (Update Security Group)

• POST /os-security-group-rules (Create Security Group Rule)

• GET /os-cells (List Cells)

• GET /os-fping?all_tenants=1 (Ping Instances)

By the way, tenant* reference will be replaced with project* in all policies, code and docs too.

Alternatives

None

Data model impact

None

REST API impact

Add a new microversion.

Replace all_tenants with all_projects parameter, and remove all_tenants in request body in follow APIs:

• GET /servers (List Servers)

• GET /servers/detail (List Server Detailed)

Replace tenant_id with project_id in request body in follow APIs:

• GET /limits (Show Rate And Absolute Limits)

• GET /os-quota-sets/{tenant_id} (Show A Quota)

• PUT /os-quota-sets/{tenant_id} (Update Quotas)

• GET /os-quota-sets/{tenant_id}/defaults (List Default Quotas For Tenant)

• GET /os-quota-sets/{tenant_id}/detail (Show The Detail of Quota)

• GET /os-simple-tenant-usage/{tenant_id} (Show Usage Statistics For Tenant)

• GET /os-cells (List Cells)

Replace tenant_id with project_id in response body in follow APIs:

• GET /servers/detail (List Server Detailed)

• GET /servers/{server_id} (List Server Detailed)

• PUT /servers/{server_id} (Update Server)

• POST /servers/{server_id}/action (Rebuild Server (rebuild Action))

• GET /servers/{server_id}/os-security-groups (List Security Groups By Server)

• GET /flavors/{flavor_id}/os-flavor-access (List Flavor Access Information

  For Given Flavor)

• POST /flavors/{flavor_id}/action (Add Flavor Access To Tenant

  (addTenantAccess Action))

• POST /flavors/{flavor_id}/action (Remove Flavor Access From Tenant

  (removeTenantAccess Action))

• GET /os-simple-tenant-usage (List Tenant Usage Statistics For All Tenants)

• GET /os-simple-tenant-usage/{tenant_id} (Show Usage Statistics For Tenant)

Security impact

None

Notifications impact

None

Other end user impact

Update openstacksdk, python-novaclient and python-openstackclient for the new microversion.

Performance Impact

None

Other deployer impact

None

Developer impact

None

Upgrade impact

None

Implementation

Assignee(s)

Primary assignee:

brinzhang

Feature Liaison

Feature liaison:

brinzhang

Work Items

• Replace tenant_id with project_id in relate APIs, policies and code.

• Replace all_tenants with all_projects in relate APIs, policies and code.

• Add related tests.

• Docs for the new microversion.

• Check the python-novaclient , python-openstackclient and openstacksdk, just support requesting project_id in related APIs.

Dependencies

None

Testing

• Add related unit test for negative scenarios.

• Add related functional test (API samples).

Tempest testing should not be necessary for this change.

Documentation Impact

Update the API reference for the new microversion, and update all uses of tenant to project in all docs and code.

References

[1] (1,2)

Mainly info: https://opendev.org/openstack/nova/src/branch/stable/ussuri/nova/api/openstack/compute/servers.py#L294-L295

History

Revisions

Release Name	Description
Wallaby	Introduced
Xena	Re-proposed