John , What I meant was that I'll ask Jie to look more exclusively into this issue and have Brian as well express his opinion on the same on the mailing list itself so that we can collaborate on the work for marketplace integration with Sebastien moving forward. As you have seen , Jie has already given a detailed explanation of what the idea is behind creating a marketplace and what sort of issues we can run into while integrating it.
Pranav -----Original Message----- From: John Kinsella [mailto:j...@stratosec.co] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 11:45 PM To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Opennebula marketplace integration Is there some reason this can't be discussed on the mailing list? John On Dec 19, 2012, at 9:49 AM, Pranav Saxena <pranav.sax...@citrix.com> wrote: > Hi Sebastien , > > This does makes sense and perhaps seems to be the most logical approach to > integrate marketplace . I 'll be initiating some more discussions on the same > with Jie and Brian and thereafter we can have a plugin code available on > github , as very rightly mentioned by you , unless we can think off some > other alternative solution. > > Regards, > Pranav > > -----Original Message----- > From: sebgoa [mailto:run...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 5:47 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Cc: Jie Feng; Sonny Chhen > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Opennebula marketplace integration > > > 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 > > Stratosec - Secure Infrastructure as a Service o: 415.315.9385 @johnlkinsella
