apache / trafficcontrol

Apache Traffic Control is an Open Source implementation of a Content Delivery Network
https://trafficcontrol.apache.org/
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Add optional description field to cdn #5454

Open mitchell852 opened 3 years ago

mitchell852 commented 3 years ago

I'm submitting a ...

Traffic Control components affected ...

Current behavior:

There is currently no way to add a description to a cdn in TP/TO API.

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New behavior:

Since TO allows one to create multiple CDNs, a description may be helpful.

Minimal reproduction of the problem with instructions:

Navigate to https://tp.domain.tld/#!/cdns/{{id}} and notice that there's no description on a CDN object.

Anything else:

More info is always good imo.

rob05c commented 3 years ago

More info is always good imo.

I don't generally agree. IMO a CDN should not be an Asset Management System. Asset Management Systems exist. CDN Operators should use them, in addition to managing their actual system configuration with ATC.

But people don't, people use ATC for Asset Management. So I won't -1 if everyone else wants one more Asset Data field ☹

mitchell852 commented 3 years ago

More info is always good imo.

I don't generally agree. IMO a CDN should not be an Asset Management System. Asset Management Systems exist. CDN Operators should use them, in addition to managing their actual system configuration with ATC.

But people don't, people use ATC for Asset Management. So I won't -1 if everyone else wants one more Asset Data field ☹

well maybe the cdn object can have one of the 3 delivery service description fields then 😆