nova/releasenotes/notes/deprecate-image-download-ext-point-cd5809e11bbd09d3.yaml
Matt Riedemann dd4ebfad13 Deprecate allowed_direct_url_schemes and nova.image.download.modules
The only in-tree implementation of the nova.image.download.modules
extension point was nova.image.download.file which was removed in
Pike: I7687cc89545a7a8b295dd6535b4ccebc913a2e0e

At the time of that removal, there was an operators ML thread
asking if anyone was using this code, or the extension point,
and the answer was no (or no answer at all).

Since we have no in-tree implementation of this extension point
and the extension point itself is not maintained or documented,
and even the TransferBase base class was removed in Pike, we
should deprecate the extension point and the configuration option
associated with its use so that we can simplify our internal
glance API client code.

Note that the libvirt Rbd image backend which does support
direct_url / image locations configuration for fast clones is
still supported and unrelated to this code.

Change-Id: I13162ebc9050dd2c468d0f8b969b96409f60afa8
2017-10-06 13:01:55 -04:00

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deprecations:
- |
The ``[glance]/allowed_direct_url_schemes`` configuration option and
``nova.image.download.modules`` extension point have been deprecated for
removal. These were originally added for the *nova.image.download.file*
FileTransfer extension which was removed in the 16.0.0 Pike release. The
``nova.image.download.modules`` extension point is not maintained
and there is no indication of its use in production clouds. If you are
using this extension point, please make the nova development team
aware by contacting us in the #openstack-nova freenode IRC channel or
on the openstack-dev mailing list.