On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:17 AM, sebgoa <run...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Dec 19, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Pranav Saxena wrote: > >> Hi Sebastien , >> >> The openNebula marketplace looks good . Regarding the plugin on the >> Cloudstack UI , we can provide you/leads of Opennebula with that since we >> already have it developed for the actual Cloudstack marketplace I was >> working on and make it point to the OpenNebula Marketplace by modifying the >> URL . >> >> But first the question arises , is the community in favor of this ? Last >> time there were some issues on the ML regarding integration of marketplace >> and I reckon , we are yet to reach a consensus. > > Hi Pranav, > > You are right in that the other marketplace thread has not yet reached > consensus. We need to bring it to consensus. > I will reply to it. > > My understanding though is that folks are in favor of marketplaces in general > but that the code of such marketplace should not be in the cloudstack code. > That means that you could put your marketplace code on github but commit the > "hooks" to it in cloudstack. In a very similar fashion that we have several > storage backends. > > Where it links to opennebula's marketplace is if your hooks can be used to > connect to their marketplace. That'd be great. > > Does that make sense ? > > -Sebastien > > >> >> Regards, >> Pranav >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: sebgoa [mailto:run...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 2:49 PM >> To: cloudstack >> Subject: [DISCUSS] Opennebula marketplace integration >> >> Hi all, >> >> In the previous marketplace discussion I mentioned the Opennebula >> marketplace: >> >> http://marketplace.c12g.com/appliance >> http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel3.8:marketplace >> >> I talked to the leads of opennebula: Ignacio de Lorente and Ruben Montero >> and they are interested to integrate their marketplace with CloudStack. >> >> The concept is to leave the marketplace itself where it is and develop >> hooks/plugins in CloudStack to import images from the marketplace into a >> CloudStack deployment. >> >> A user would set a global settings 'marketplace' to the opennebula >> marketplace server. This would in turn display the images that are in the >> marketplace within the template UI. >> >> Thoughts ? >> >> -Sebastien > >
+1 to this approach... both in terms of segregating the "marketplace" and CloudStack code, as well as the goal of providing the list of available templates from within the *template* selection UI.
