Managing Profiles

Managing Profiles

A profile type can be treated as the meta-type of a Profile object. A registry of profile types is built when the Cluster service starts. When creating a Profile object, you will indicate the profile type used in its spec property.

List Profiles

To examine the list of profiles:

When listing profiles, you can specify the sorting option using the sort parameter and you can do pagination using the limit and marker parameters.

Full example: manage profile

Create Profile

When creating a profile, you will provide a dictionary with keys and values specified according to the profile type referenced.

Optionally, you can specify a metadata keyword argument that contains some key-value pairs to be associated with the profile.

Full example: manage profile

Find Profile

To find a profile based on its name or ID:

The Cluster service doesn’t allow updating the spec of a profile. The only way to achieve that is to create a new profile.

Full example: manage profile

Get Profile

To get a profile based on its name or ID:

Full example: manage profile

Update Profile

After a profile is created, most of its properties are immutable. Still, you can update a profile’s name and/or metadata.

The Cluster service doesn’t allow updating the spec of a profile. The only way to achieve that is to create a new profile.

Full example: manage profile

Delete Profile

A profile can be deleted after creation, provided that it is not referenced by any active clusters or nodes. If you attempt to delete a profile that is still in use, you will get an error message.

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