rename tenant to "project"

[msterin]

"tenant" is perceived as something related to a group of users and is confusing on out context. We need to emphasize that this is a way to limit access and privileges for a set of Vms , supposedly working on the same project. So the suggestion (from @pdhamdhere ) is to name it "project" , instead of "tenant".

this would include :

• admin CLI
• documentation
• error and help messages , if any, in esx_service and guest-side code
• auth_db tabes names (optional , can stay as it is)

//CC @lipingxue @shaominchen @pdhamdhere

[shaominchen]

I'm not sure if the name "project" is really better than "tenant" :-) This name may cause some confusion in technical communications - what does it mean to "create a project"? It's kind of ambiguous to me.

Personally I don't have strong concern about the name "tenant". But if most people think it's inappropriate, I'd prefer "role" or something else.

[shuklanirdesh82]

from https://github.com/vmware/docker-volume-vsphere/blob/master/docs/features/tenancy.md
"vSphere Administrator can define group of one or more Docker Host (VM) as Tenant"

e.g.

vmdkops_admin.py tenant create --name=tenant1 --vm-list=photon4

How about having it as vm-group? simply it is a logical unit of dockerHosts to have privileges for datastore.

my two-cents

[govint]

"vm-group" opens up the implementation bellow the docker host, "project" will match well with the photon platform (they have tenants and projects). HOw about "host-group"

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[lipingxue]

@govint what does "projects" and "tenants" mean in photon platform? I think "host-group" sounds a good name. Any comments @pdhamdhere @msterin

[msterin]

I agree with @govint here. vm-group is the best IMO. host ia easy to mistake for ESX host.

[tusharnt]

Fixed by #1021