From 41e0e53b5cf7e0e5adc9513cc26a63006d2080a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Devananda van der Veen <devananda.vdv@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:57:35 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify doc: API is admin only Clarify wording in the architecture doc page that Ironic's API service is intended only for privileged (admin) users and privileged services in the control plane. Change-Id: I2e660401c7e2ebe2f6dc89673236107727462fcc --- doc/source/dev/architecture.rst | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/source/dev/architecture.rst b/doc/source/dev/architecture.rst index 00edce021d..2f3171cda4 100644 --- a/doc/source/dev/architecture.rst +++ b/doc/source/dev/architecture.rst @@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ High Level description An Ironic deployment will be composed of the following components: -- A RESTful `API service`_, by which operators and other services may interact - with the managed bare metal servers. +- An admin-only RESTful `API service`_, by which privileged users, such as + cloud operators and other services within the cloud control plane, may + interact with the managed bare metal servers. - A `Conductor service`_, which does the bulk of the work. Functionality is exposed via the `API service`_. The Conductor and API services communicate via RPC.