Obsolete:Api transition

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Here are the current apis available in OpenStack:

Here are the proposed apis that could be available in OpenStack:

The customer could talk to each individual endpoint, but some operators would want to present a comprehensive api to the customer. This could be done by having a proxy layer above the service apis that would route the request to the appropriate api.

In our example below, if the customer was requesting /images, then proxy would receive the request then route it to the glance api.