Moving to Keystone v3

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/keystone-v3

This blueprint is meant to capture the changes to the Neutron repos (neutron, neutron-lib and python-neutronclient) needed to fully integrate Neutron with the Keystone v3 API.

All the steps described in this document are applicable also to repos neutron-fwaas, neutron-lbaas, neutron-vpnaas and neutron-dynamic-routing. However, only the changes in neutron, neutron-lib and python-neutronclient are required to consider this blueprint completed.

Problem Description

The Keystone v3 API [1] was released on February 20, 2013. In the Icehouse release the Keystone v2 API was deprecated [2]. The deprecation had to be reverted [3] because many OpenStack projects did not support the v3 API yet.

In the Mitaka release Keystone is again deprecating the v2 API [4]. Projects will be able to use the v2 API for the next four releases, but after that it will not be supported. To be consistent with other OpenStack projects and to be able to continue using the Identity Service, we must update Neutron to exclusively use Keystone v3 when v2 is no longer supported.

With the Keystone v3 API, the concept of “tenant” is deprecated in favor of “project”. In particular, the attribute tenant_id is replaced with project_id. Neutron must initially support project_id as an alias for tenant_id before finally replacing tenant_id altogether. Deprecation will be kept as long as Neutron CLI will be supported.

In requests to Neutron, the neutron server already treats project_id as an alias for tenant_id. Internally, Neutron should eventually replace tenant_id with project_id in attributes and database fields.

In requests from Neutron to other OpenStack services, the neutron components should use keystoneauth, which abstracts the v2/v3 differences.

Proposed Change

Change all existing uses in Neutron code from Keystone v2 to Keystone v3. Initially both versions of API will be supported. Migration will be handled in several steps.

  1. Update Neutron server to accept Keystone v3 contexts in requests. [DONE]

  2. Update the API bindings in python-neutronclient to properly handle both project_id and tenant_id.

  3. Update Neutron server to use only keystoneauth for requests to other OpenStack services.

  4. Update documentation about deprecation of tenant_id attribute:

    1. OpenStack Networking API reference,

    2. Neutron and neutronclient developer references.

  5. Create project_id alias for all tenant_id columns in DB.

  6. Update codebase, changing all occurences of tenant with project, where appropriate. Special care needs to be taken for:

    1. When renaming arguments for callables, some callers may pass them using kwargs notation (tenant_id=…) instead of positional.

    2. When changing code that is used by external projects, the change must not break the external project. Deprecation warnings should be set up.

Neutron API

The Neutron API accepts the project_id attribute and treats it as an alias for the tenant_id attribute. This is already implemented [5].

Also, tenant_id is used as a filter parameter in Neutron API. It is a requirement that this use-case will continue to work.

Neutron API responses will be expanded to contain both tenant_id and project_id. For now we are unable to phase out tenant_id since that would require an API version change. When microversioning [7] is adopted for the Neutron API the task of removing deprecated attributes can be commenced. Meanwhile we will expose project_id through yet another API extension, enabled by default.

Neutron client

For CLI commands, the Neutron client is being deprecated in favor of OpenStack Client [8]. Therefore the CLI portion of python-neutronclient will not be updated. In the OpenStack Client the CLI commands have already adopted the policy of using project_ and do not support tenant_.

The only part of python-neutronclient which will be modified is the Python API bindings. All the places where the bindings accept tenant_id and tenant_name need to be expanded to also accept project_id and project_name. The tenant_ parameters will be marked as deprecated and to be removed in the future.

OpenStack documentation

Neutron client CLI is being deprecated in favor of OpenStack Client [8], thus the only document update regarding its behavior will contain information about deprecation.

The neutronclient Python API documentation will be updated to show corresponding changes about bindings.

Neutron developer reference

The term tenant is used all across the documentation. All the places need to be updated, with extra information about tenant_id deprecation in favor of the project_id.

Additional guidelines will be provided for all subprojects/affiliated projects, about modifications required to be consistent with Neutron API changes.

Database

Renaming columns from tenant_id to project_id and from tenant_name to project_id will require downtime and will be done in a contract migration.

To allow changes in smaller chunks, and for backward compatibility, we will temporarily use the SQLAlchemy synonym feature [6] to make tenant_id a synonym for project_id columns.

For some time, database operations will see tenant_id and project_id attributes separately coming up in lists of properties and such, and care will need to be taken in how they are filtered and passed around.

Once all existing columns have been renamed to project_id, all new columns added to any Neutron code shall use only project_id. A hacking rule will be added to prevent the reintroduction of tenant_id in source code.

Internal changes

Server code changes will be submitted in reviewable chunks, without interruption to the external API or external project dependencies. Client code changes are additive until the deprecated keywords are removed.

Testing

API Tests

Write tests to check responses for tenant and project parameters, to be sure that introduced changes are consistent.

Functional Tests

  • Test if project_id returns the same response as tenant_id.

  • Test if tenant_id is updated when project_id is updated.

References