Add tags for OpenStack resources

Registered by huangtianhua

Currently, the EC2 API of OpenStack only has tags support (metadata) for instances. And there has already a blueprint about to add support for volumes and volume snapshots using “metadata”.
In OpenStack, generally, the choice was made to use maps of key/value pairs instead of lists of strings(tags) to annotate objects exposed in the REST APIs. OpenStack REST APIs inconsistently call these maps of key/value pairs:
  * "properties" (Glance, Cinder Image, Volume,respectively)
  * "extra_specs" (Nova InstanceType)
  * "metadata" (Nova Instance, Aggregate and InstanceGroup, Neutron)
  * "metadetails" (Nova Aggregate and InstanceGroup)
  * "system_metadata" (Nova Instance -- differs from "normal" metadata in that the key/value pairs are 'owned' by Nova, not a user...)
Tags are a cleaner way of annotating objects when the annotation is coming from a normal user. Tags represent by far the most common way for REST APIs to enable user-facing annotation of objects in a way that is easy to search on. We should support for tags added to any searchable/queryable object in all of the OpenStack APIs.
And the key/value pairs can only be changed by users with elevated privileged system-controlled, the normal users should use tags.

Blueprint information

Status:
Not started
Approver:
None
Priority:
Undefined
Drafter:
huangtianhua
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
huangtianhua
Definition:
New
Series goal:
None
Implementation:
Unknown
Milestone target:
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Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/add-tags-for-os-resources,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/90276
    Add spec for "Add tags for OpenStack resources"

Seems related to this: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/tag-instances
Spec abandoned, un-targeting blueprint from juno-1 --johnthetubaguy (28th May 2014)
Please mark this as obsolete if you no longer want to do this blueprint.

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